NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

> A little OT digression about the hyphen. Many of you know that in the
> Spanish-speaking world people conventionally use two surnames, the paternal
> and maternal, in that order. Try explaining that to US law enforcement and
> corrections:  they can't get their minds around it. So everyone has to get
> hyphenated.

Or the opposite problem: I've been working with a city-run database
that doesn't allow hyphens in names. Brilliant!