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>Why do people incessantly complain about this?

May be because number of those names grows and it's becoming overwhelming?

>"some hypothetical person"

It's not hypothetical person I constantly stumble on strange names and frequently in context where I do not care how it is called as long as I know what function it performs (even approximately). And strange names appear more and more and the main question I have usually: What is it? What it does?.

The same happens with web sites for new products. With all great slogans like "It will improve your productivity" and similar sentences I am not interested to read it's lacking one mention of what it actually does and what it's all about.

Thus the idea to use prefix-Name format in descriptions. What do you think about that idea? Would it improve educational function? Would it be easier to understand then searching for the term?




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