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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's the opposite of nominative determinism?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Seems that this has been asked before, and Wikipedia has gone for inaptronym

I like nominative ironicism or unaptonym.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

"Robin Mahfood, president and CEO of Food for the Poor" was my favorite.