Naming things is hard. Categorizing things, which can be thought of as a form of naming things, is also hard. Nonetheless, this is my chosen vocation, so I expect to spend the rest of my life attempting to name and categorize things. A caricatured perspective on this (say, if you were writing it into a tv show where it merely has to seem plausible, but doesn\u2019t actually have to be load-bearing) would typically involve bold, bombastic names for things. And occasionally grandiose choices actually are the best ones. But in practice, most of the time, good names have a slightly mundane quality about them. Once you\u2019ve come up with them, they seem like they were always there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m currently looking at my macbook\u2019s Notes app, which is one of several receptacles that I dump notes into. It has a total of 14 folders, including the default one titled \u201cNotes\u201d, and then it also has \u201cnotes2\u201d, \u201cshortnotes\u201d, and several others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
StarCraft as a name doesn\u2019t make sense by itself. You\u2019re not crafting stars. It only makes sense in relation to its predecessor, WarCraft. StarCraft is really WarCraft in space. A lot of language is like this. And the original sources of things are often forgotten. And not just language. Practically everything comes from a lineage that\u2019s often misunderstood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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