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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Re:..uhm es schpricht DER FUHRER SEIG HEIL

[Anonymous Coward]

shut up nigger sugarbitch DEATHoven Death. i want to render all you niggers into dead niggers, turn you into nigger charcoal, and use your nigger fat for lubrication when i rape and kill your nigger wife's ass. you little nigger. and i want to process your nigger children into food, lampshades, fertilizer, vaseline and other organic animal products. i wish my oven in jermany could roast you niggers - some fuckers made me turn them off and fake my death. i ate barbecued nigger, its nice here in argentine, we cook and eat nigger kids all the time. nigger bone marrow makes good soup stock, nigger muscle tastes a bit like pork, because niggers are pigs. nigger organs and eyes can help even this old retired Fuhrer stay alive a lot longer and young, and nigger teeth are fake gold, so we cant use them, but we make nigger hair into brillo pads. death to all niggers

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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...