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Noticing someone with a double-barrelled last name and long first name.
Made me remember a person I met with a triple hyphenated last name! Must've been tough to wield day-to-day!
A #poll…
For your regular every-day name, eg introducing yourself (not your full legal name) how many syllables does it take to say it?
| 1 to 3: | 268 |
| 4 to 7: | 160 |
| 8 to 13: | 6 |
| 14 or more: | 2 |
Closed
What's in a name? that which we call as a method
By any other name would work as correctly.
(After WS.)
We say "comma-separated values", but we do
>>> ','.join(("foo", "bar", "baz"))
'foo,bar,baz'
Wherefore art thou Joiner—or Separator...
#ComputerProgramming
#Names
#Naming
#ObjectCentric
#ObjectOriented
#Paraphrases
#ProgrammingLanguages
#RJ
#Rose
or for Erwin Schrodinger,
Erwin, Schrodi, Dinger, Ding,
FeLiNe - Iron + Lithium + Neon
or
PuSi - Plutonium + Silicon
or since it's black,
'Carbon Kitty'
or go with a theoretical element (copypasta'd):
Pentunseptium (Pus)
Pentunseptium is the systematic name of the theoretical 517th element in the periodic table with a symbol of Pus and atomic number of 517. Pentunseptium, also known as element 517, has five hundred seventeen protons in its nucleus, and five hundred seventeen electrons in its shells.