DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
is there a word for things that are named after people who would be unpleased to be associated with the thing in later days?
for example, Sylvester Graham and graham crackers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_cracker )
the dear reverend graham would abhor the s'more that depends on the crackers named in his sake
moved
@djsundog General Tso would hate his chicken. Too sweet.
Annah
Pat Malone
Dear Professor Zener would have been appalled that the "ESP deck" was named after him. @djsundog
Kara Dreamer ⚧
@djsundog the world of chess provides many odd examples of openings being named inappropriately, none more so than the inferior Black defense 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 (White can take the e5 pawn anyway, with advantage). A Renaissance Portuguese chess writer named Pedro Damiano mentioned the defence briefly, only to say that it's bad; nevertheless history saw fit to name it Damiano's Defence.
ʀᴇᴛᴛɪᴡT 💀
@djsundog what a grahtastrophe
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