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> They are the ones who get to decide

Once upon a time, the late musician Prince decided to change his name. Turns out that no, you don't always "get to decide" and even fans don't follow your every whim: Most ignored his choice and without much "humbleness and deference" started referring to him as TAFKAP—"The Artist Formerly Known As Prince."

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Well, that and he changed his name to a glyph which didn’t actually appear on anyone’s system. It was practically impossible to call him by his ‘real’ name even if you had wanted to.

Prince had mailed out floppy disks to news organizations to accommodate that change. [0] The Prince font substituted his symbol for what would otherwise be a capital P. In addition, the font was also made available for download on CompuServe.

[0] http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/04/princes-legendary-floppy-...

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