Why does the name of something be of concern anyway... people are called by Names... you would say to Identify the person in a crowd... but then names are not unique... so naming persons does not serve the purpose of identifying some body... lets pick a numbering pattern... say Numeric... like 1, 2, 3... and so on... this will be of lesser help since... you cannot identify who is related to whom... like the Father-Son, Mother-Daughter, Sister-Brother relation etc.. so we might need a Alpha numeric pattern... like ABC001, ABC002, ABC003... and so on... then we have a relation stating the Family as "ABC" and 001 has the head of the family... sorry I skipped the female members... now-a-days since women do not believe in changing their surnames... this would sound like...
ABC001, FGH003, ABC002, ABC003... confusion and ambiguity...
Also, we cannot identify the Caste, Creed, Race etc. in this nomeclature, since the Government needs to implement reservation... higher caste person wants to identify himself among a group of people... a person from a race (which is supposed to be developed) wants to see upon his counterpart who is lagging behind in the evolution chain...
So we need to search for another pattern... might be a pattern which retains the Surname and has a Number tagged to it like...
WILLIAM001, WILLIAM002 and so on... but there may be two Surnames which are spelled alike but have a different origin (or belong to different families)... this ambiguity may be removed by tagging a Place, like UK-WILLIAM001, US-WILLIAM001, IND-WILLIAM001 and so on...
Now we need to consider Non-Resident Citizens... for them we need to mention both Countries... like... IND-PAK-WILLIAM001, US-UK-WILLIAM001, and so on... but we need to stress on the current citizenship Nation... for example in IND-WILLIAM001 now stays in PAKISTAN but has INDIAN Citizenship, then he would be called... IND-PAK-WILLIAM001, once he gets a major citizenship in PAKISTAN, he should be called PAK-IND-WILLIAM001... hey this raises a concern with his change of name in Passport, D/L, Ration Card, Green Card and all other such documents... this would need a tedious process and procedure to be adapted...
After all this discussion... I conclude that... the existing nomenclature is good enough for the current generation to cope up with... In future generations, new Naming patterns should be identified, so that we understand the statement from William Shakespeare...
Whats in a Name...
We learn a lesson everyday... You forget it if you don't memorise or pen it down... This is an attempt to portray my inner self... the opinions expressed are never meant to hurt you... if they do, then leave your feeling to air...
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haha. nice post. it reminds me of the Idea! cellular ad. people called by their cell phone numbers.
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