NAMES(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual NAMES(7) NAME Names – three types DESCRIPTION There are (at least) three different types of names a person has. First, there are normie names. These are names usually made up of several words each of which is capitalized. Most people have one of these, but it's possible to have more. They're names that might appear on various types of Documents. A “legal name” (dubious) is a normie name, but normie names need not be “legal” (dubious). I list this category first not because it's more important, but because it is by far the most boring. Next, there are Real Names. Most people have at least a few and will probably go through different ones over time. Your Real Names are anything people use to refer to you. On the internet these are often not capitalized. Sometimes that is the only distinction between a Real Name and a normie name. There was a period of time when I was playing a lot of TF2 and not really leaving my apartment. I had set my steam name to “gluten product” (yeah, from that dril tweet) and I talked in the game's voice chat quite a bit. Naturally other Gamers in voice chat called me “gluten” and at some point I realized that over the span of months I had been refered to as “gluten” more often than any other name. So that was a Real Name of mine. People used it and I responded to it. Last, there are the True Names. The kind of name that knowledge of gives one power over a person. I don't think any humans know their own True Names, but I do believe they exist. It's possible that other animals know theirs. It's probably best not to know though, right? I think if I knew mine I would always worry about accidentally revealing it. AUTHORS june Causal Agency October 30, 2021 Causal Agency