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> It's just a name. Names are almost always boring. Not everyone feels this way. Names can be important and in the arts are particularly relished/valued and in
by theoh 11y ago
> It's just a name. Names are almost always boring.
Not everyone feels this way. Names can be important and in the arts are particularly relished/valued and interpreted, to the extent that noms-de-plume and other forms of pseudonym are popular.
A formalist account of names sees them as dumb labels, and in computing you can get away with that. But it's not whole story because it doesn't consider the emotional side.