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What's in a Name? - Oldie but Goodie

I'd started a bunch of posts in the early days here, meaning to flesh them out later;  some are still worth sharing.  Below are my (now fleshed out) early reflections on and experiences with names. -- It's been almost a month since I got here, and there's been a mind-boggling array of new names to learn.  Not unexpected, but what I hadn't initially considered was just how many of these new and at times hard-to-remember names would be for folks from my own company! Even more entertaining, is what autocorrect on my phone changes these names to when I first enter them - some of these are truly surreal.  (Autocorrect in parentheses): Ashish (hashish), Sukhmeet (summer), Vishal (visual), Prasant (peasant), Harshit (harshly), Puneet (my next), Abhik, Sanjay (sandy), Chintan (Chinese), Emira (empire), Joydeep (hotter), Manoj (man on), Sameep (sleep), Jatinder (marinated), Jasryn (has run), Sunil, Akhil, Amit (Amor), Gyan (than), Ishant (insane), Ilesha (Illeana), T...

The New Normal

And Now For Something Completely Different...