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wingedcatgirl MOD I'm helping! (Holding A Herring)
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Sep 5th 2017 at 11:57:34 AM •••

Pulled:

  • People have serial numbers in Nineteen Eighty-Four; Winston's is 6079.
    • Not only people. Britain is renamed Airstrip One.
    • This is really only a partial example, as people are also referred to with their last name and first initial after their serial number. For instance, whenever Winston appears in front of a telescreen, he is referred to as "6079 Smith W".

This is a nattery mess, and I can't fix it myself because I still haven't read 1984.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
Sep 26th 2014 at 12:20:23 PM •••

Does this trope apply to a robot character that has a serial number, but isn't referred by it?

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
Sep 26th 2014 at 1:26:09 PM •••

No. The trope is specifically about being called by number.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
Sep 26th 2014 at 1:28:13 PM •••

Thought so. Just double checking before I do some pruning.

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PIN Since: Apr, 2012
Apr 21st 2012 at 7:22:32 AM •••

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"* Much like the ancient Romans, in the old Chinese culture girls were often numbered rather than named. Often their name would change when they marry so they are numbered based on how many wives their husband already had when they married. Men and boys, however, actually had real names."

Ancient Chinese women do have names.But due to their inactivity in social affairs,their names are often only known to their inner circles.In public they are referred to only by their family name + "氏" or in case of a married woman, "husband's family name" + "own family name" + "氏". If a history record needs to explicitly record a woman,it will use her full name. And they don't usually change name when they get married.Even the "adopt your husband's family name" thing is optional depending on where you live. And no,ancient Chinese men don't have "wives". There are one wife and "concubines". The wife's status is higher than the concubines'.YMMV

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AndrewGPaul Since: Oct, 2009
Jun 1st 2011 at 6:25:39 AM •••

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"* Many nations give you ((strike:ID cards)) drivers' licenses with ID numbers on them, but no one really cares about those, and tend to associate the aforementioned SSNs with identity instead." from the Real Life section. Despite saying "many nations", SSNs are a US thing, and I'm not even sure spirit of the example is true in other countries; does anyone in the UK know their NI number?

174.45.17.238 Since: Dec, 1969
Dec 17th 2010 at 12:14:53 AM •••

Can someone edit this for me? The site won't let me. The entry for Naruto has the numbers for the tailed demons as "Ichi, Ni, San, Yon, Go, Shichi, Hachi, Jyuu, Kyuu", but the names of the foxes do not match up to this. The numbers listed above should be "Ichi, Ni, San, Yon, Go, Roku, Shichi, Hatchi, Kyuu". Thanks.

99.241.202.141 Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 26th 2010 at 5:00:56 PM •••

USAF Lt. Colonel (now a Judge Advocate General) J. Dunlop wrote about a hypothetical military coup d'etat for a research paper entitled The American Military Coup of 2012 while at the US Army War College. The fictional author of the is referred to only as a serial number.

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