Games played by sound don't work as text.

It's impossible to play this game by text. So, the program will
just die with a long message explaining why this is a really bad
challenge, and why we don't even make an attempt to solve it.

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+#!/opt/perl/bin/perl
+
+use 5.032;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+no  warnings 'syntax';
+
+use experimental 'signatures';
+use experimental 'lexical_subs';
+
+die << "--";
+This challenge is impossible. This is a children's game, played
+with children who cannot read or write yet. The song is entirely
+based on *sounds*. It is about how a name is pronounded, not how
+it is written.
+
+How a name is pronounced depends on language, region, and parential
+preference.
+
+For instance, what is the consonant sound starting names like Thom
+(T?, Th?) or Christine (C?, Ch?, Chr?)? We cannot deduce that from
+how it's written.
+
+And what to do with names starting with a silent consonant? The
+Greek goddess of sand beaches, for instance, Psamathe.
+
+We might have a shot at solving this if the input were to be given
+in IPA phonetic notation, but the one example given doesn't indicate
+this is the intention.
+
+And we refuse to do something stupid as just blindly chopping off
+the leading consonant (if any) of a name. No pre-schooler would
+sing a different song for Tijs than they would for Thijs (names,
+which in my language are pronounced identically) -- and rightly so,
+because the game removes the leading consonant sound, which is not
+necessarily the leading consonant when written. Besides, what is
+the first consonant of \x{5b54}\x{592b}\x{5b50}?
+
+What to think about Victor? The name game has a special rule for
+names starting with a 'b', 'f' or 'm' sound. There are languages
+where the 'V' in Victor is very distinct from an 'f' sound -- and
+there are languages where they are the same sound. Again, really
+easy for pre-schoolers playing the game by sound; impossible to do
+by text.
+
+And then we haven't tackled the syllable count yet. Kyle. One or two
+syllables?
+--