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0 pointsjareklupinski2y ago0 comments

i get those angles; growing up in a country where no one can even pronounce my name, it felt healthy to know that there was a world full of jareks haha

it's not about trademark risk - you should sit down with someone and say the name "The Population Project" out loud, without saying anything else about the project, and ask them what they _think_ it means

Shakespeare was being ironic: _everything_ is in a name

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antoine_b2y ago

Got it. Do you think The Population Project is a bad name? I usually get pretty good feedback about it.

jareklupinskiOP2y ago

i think to the uninitiated it might sound like you're proposing a plan to do something about the population, which has never been well-received :)

once you're married to a name, it's biologically impossible to see it the same way from the inside, that's why you need to look into an outsider's eyes IRL while you say the name

try something fun, like "The Name Game" haha

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