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i think they mean that pronounciation matters for determing validity, not for the actual record or distinguishing between names
But that doesn't really address the original question, does it? You don't have to pronounce all the letters in a name, so the fact that you can't pronounce a newline isn't sufficient to demonstrate that it can't be part of a name.