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Comment by mcbishop | Hacker News Reader

Agreed. And might as well use one-syllable words that are pleasant to read / write (e.g. bob, tom, box, rack, sun).

The next thing you know your using joe[1] to write joe[2] in joe[3].

At work we have an app called "directly", and an app called "indirectly". Ask me if I ever have to clarify by asking "you mean in an indirect way, in the app indirectly or in the app directly?" (the answer is ALL THE TIME)

  1: the editor
  2: a service you created
  3: Joe-E the language

Just use less common names like Brice or Werner or Rubin?

My favorite thing is when names that I often have to communicate verbally for written use have ambiguous alternative spellings.

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