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No. The purpose of a name is to convey meaning to the reader. There is exactly one valid complaint about a name: “I’ve read this carefully and I still don’t know what it means.”

A standards-compliant name that interferes with understanding is not okay. A name everyone gets, which happens to not follow a rule in some rulebook, is probably fine.



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