Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People
by Cogito on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:38AM
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It doesn't belong in the same way that Debian doesn't.
The good ones in the list are good because they are not obviously a name of a person, the name of the thing makes sense independently to it being named after a person.
"Lake Mountain" could easily be named that because it is a mountain with a lake, so it is interesting that Lake Mountain is named after someone named Lake; Adidas and Debian are unexpected simply because they don't look like the name of a person, or anything else!
The good ones in the list are good because they are not obviously a name of a person, the name of the thing makes sense independently to it being named after a person.
"Lake Mountain" could easily be named that because it is a mountain with a lake, so it is interesting that Lake Mountain is named after someone named Lake; Adidas and Debian are unexpected simply because they don't look like the name of a person, or anything else!