I had a funny parallel to the Green building example. (That people assume is the color green but is named after the person with surname Green.) At a conference

I had a funny parallel to the Green building example. (That people assume is the color green but is named after the person with surname Green.) At a conference, Effective Altruism Global 2016, on the Berkeley campus, they kept referring to (what I parsed as) the "poly room", which I assumed was a room sponsored/organized by the polyamory community (which has a non-trivial overlap with EA). Only later did I realize they were saying the Pauley room, which (like Green above) came from the donors' surnames. The thing is, I try to be super vigilant about ambiguous parsings. If there's a board game called "Five", I would never induce confusion by asking "Do you have Five?" instead saying, "Do you have the board game Five?" If I went to MIT and were taking to an outsider, I would probably refer to it as the "Ida Green" or "Cecil Green" building. (Side note: At Texas A&M, they warn you that if someone refers to the "coldest buliding", you probably misheard them saying "the Koldus building".)