h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

okay... so the hyphen is now not allowed, but not sure what else is wrong with it.

Mina _ is on the FP but didn't get an email

??

Mina _ wishes for better instructions

is apparently allowed. So there we have it.

I see you tried to smuggle in that obscure sign, the "apostrophe". Boo

Thank you, it seems to be working now!

And the hyphen *was* allowed.

This is why one may wonder why apostrophes are not

Because we're just supposed to have a NAME. Not a CHITCHAT. Shame, as h2g2 was one of the first websites to allow people to have a sort of status in their name. Every other site follows, then the Beeb decide to turn it off!?

But names with numbers and underscores are allowed? What about if I'm called O'Grady?

I understand that some people have numbers in their names, but these tend to be in roman numerals, or those people are horses.

Shame about the lack of chitchat in the nametag. It's not much really, and that wouldn't make a difference whether I registered somewhere or not, but in all those years I grew quite fond of it without realising, until it was forbidden.

Is there a point to that restriction anyway? Where do we campaign to get it back? Shall we write to the Queen?

I think numbers are allowed so that if you have, say, another Mina wanting to be called Mina on h2g2 she could call herself Minanumber2s so everyone would know it wasn't me.


I thought the Eds were hoping to get it changed back, but they are so busy i don't suppose it's a priority.

I even read (or dreamt) there would be a shortening of the limit size of nicknames

They were supposed to be lengthening the names eventually, just for hootoo. Doesn't seem to be any sign of it happening

That's what I thought. I find the loss of ' more terrible though. All that bad grammer.

I was in fact thinking of changing my name once to Hen3ry (the '3' was silent, you see...)

I feel that pain - with the limited number of letters I couldn't expand the contraction so I'm missing an apostrophe in mine

Gonna have to start txt spk in our names.

"All that bad grammer"

And spelling

Bad spellling is aloud.