[sublinear]

> ... pay more attention to names that are too similar than to short names.

Ah this is exactly why people dislike the short names.

If you ever have more than a few of them and they aren't even real words, common abbreviations, or hijack well known unreserved names I would immediately reject that during code review.

I think most people are fine with plain English 1 to 3 word names concatenated in whatever style of the language or other conventions.

i.e. "result" instead of "r", "re", or "res"

Why? Because "r" is familiar as a read permission, "re" is familiar as a regular expression, and "res" is familiar as a response object.

This is the bad kind of familiarity that drives people up a wall and wastes a ton of time.

[moloch-hai]

Keep control of syllables. Each counts against your cognitive limit of "seven plus or minus two" items that fit in registers.