It's remarkably hard to create names that don't drift.
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@sebinsua names in software? A class called AbstractNamingFactory might last for a while1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@ollieglass I actually have been thinking for a while about the village I spent my teenage years in. "Benenden". It means "wooden pasture."1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ollieglass My brother expanded: "Cambridge: bridge over the river cam. Oxford: a ford where you herd oxen." Nowadays we aren't so literal.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ollieglass Our working maps are larger so the details we name them from have to be more specialised.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ollieglass And everything changes more frequently. Nobody is really tempted to name a place "on-junction-near-tesco".1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sebinsua informally people will use names like that though - "the one near the Tesco". Perhaps in the past those colloquial names1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ollieglass I actually think it's a better way of naming if you can do it without too much drift.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@ollieglass Instead names are picked for their positive connotations. Perhaps due to advertising, commercialisation and private ownership.
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