Ever wondered what an advantage a name can provide you ? ... Think of a name ... Gupta Ji ... ? You get frustrated ? .. You can call him Kutta Ji. There will be a hint of the rape, but no confirmation. Image an another name .... xxyyzz Bekar. Well, do not do anything right .. and of course wasn't that expected ? ... isn't the name suggest that बेकार is what one is ? ... Now image if you're to name someone. What would it be ? ... Would you like to take an advantage or give ? ... Imagine a man who enjoys being the center of affection. Not because its fun being in the limelight but because its good to make people happy even if that comes at the expense of showing himself in different light !! And if person is like that then doesn't it come with the package of pulling others when get a chance ? ... So now think of a name when this thought process of man is something like मार ली , मार लो etc. Which in politically correct tone sound like प्यार दो etc.
If प्यार दो was to be correctly translated in English then it would be like "Getting love", "Distributing love" etc.
When this man is a center of attention for all the fuss .... and were to be given a name, why would one not think of Love and Distribution ? ... The best part about the pat names is the coincidence with existing abbreviation. That basically hides the usage at the same time safeguarding user will politically correctness. So a safe choice would be to simply chose LDS (Coincides with Linux development server). But here it could simply provide the another meaning "Love Distribution S". The interesting part here though would be the choice of 'S'. Would it be 'System' or "Server" ? ....
Lets take it as following : Love Distribution Server ....
All the models usually work on simple concepts of Producer/Consumer or Server/Client. if Server were to be chosen. The it would mean that Server is catering to all the clients. And in terminology of distributing love to all the clients ? ... Oh Boy!!! ... We have a Casanova here !! And if we chose to pick System ? ... We've a mechanism to handle most of the concerned processes. A better and safer bet ? ...
Well that remains open to discussion. The fact that a minor change can swing the advantage on any side puts lot of weight on a name.
I also know of a man who named his daughter Delta. Reason being ? ... Various names have different meanings in different language ... Image चुधामानी , a very popular and common name in South!! .. but then how does it sound to a North Indian ? ... A common name in North .. पूसी ... imagine that in English ? ... Worst part .. famous name Dick in English .. Or imagine the common names now all synonymous with Dog's name ..Tommy, Jacky, Thunder, Typhoon etc ...
The whole concept of a name is to associate an identity with and entity. Fact that certain unlucky ones get multiple identities attached with them even before they even get to understand tag is what we recall as Naming [dis]advantage.
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