Why Such Unimaginative Nomenclature?

apoplectic asks: "Pick a word. A noun would be nice, but not required. Now, imagine a potentially meaningful adjective or other nebbish modifier, select the first letter, and append this to either the beginning or the end of the noun you originally chose. Some examples, include: JBoss, WebL, GStreamer, eMachine, iPod, and of course the XBox. I realize that the exceptions greatly outweigh this rule, but this does seem to be a disproportionately invoked naming standard that lacks a little 'je ne sais quoi'. Why is this so common? Do you really like this 'standard', or is this like something touched on by an episode of Futurama? Have, we have run out of names that have yet to be copyrighted, and all we are left with is Poppler -- or some hideous cryptic name from the aforementioned 'UName' naming standard. Why does it seem as if quite a few applications, along with many a geeky item, follow such unimaginative naming conventions?"

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Speaking of which..

[Motherfucking Shit]

If I were going to have kids, I think I'd take any potential "abbreviations" into account before naming them. Imagine naming your kid something like:

Terrence Baggart (T-Bag)

Alan Holden (A-Hole)

Vance Ginsburg (Va-G...ahh, fuck it)

In all seriousness, it's interesting how the trend towards vocal laziness causes all sorts of new implications...