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maybe it's an issue with my neurology, but for me if the name isn't descriptive it takes me longer to make association between the name and what it actually is.

with "Virtual Servers", I would have only had to look it up once. With "Elastic Computer" it took me months of rereading what that service was for it to sink in.



That's fascinating and shows how different people are. I'm completely opposite! If you name something "gnorf" or "harjblang" and give me a definition, it occupies a specific unique place in my mind and I can learn memorize use and associate it.

With generic terms using generic words making up significant phrases, my mind struggles mightily, whether that's virtual private servers or integrated change control or steering rack control arm... This incidentally is why I struggle to learn any e.g. Car mechanics in English because it's all regular words strung up together Instead of bespoke unique keywords




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