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by dmos62 1687 days ago
These terms are (or the lack of terms is) pretty horrible: Ubiquity, Argo, Spectrum, Accelerator. Sounds like names given to ironic sci-fi story characters.
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If we are nitpicking, then I am compelled to point out that "ironic" doesn't mean what you may think it does: https://medium.com/@frithahookway/the-ironic-misuse-of-irony...
I think we could debate this.

> irony (ˈaɪənɪ) adj: of, resembling, or containing iron.

In all seriousness, if we want to get nitpicking let's go back to the fact that the word comes from the Greek eirōneia, which means feigned ignorance, which in turn comes from the Greek eirōn, dissembler. I'd then argue that naming things silly names can be called ironic if the story world feigns ignorance of them being silly.

Point taken (:

> I think we could debate this.

Wouldn't be worth both our time though.