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[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's the opposite of nominative determinism?

[–] Deebster@lemmy.ml 24 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.

[–] shikogo@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago

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

[–] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

His family had a sense of humour and he kicked it up a notch by becoming policeman / police officer.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

His name is Robert but he convinced the TV crew to use the short version

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] pm_me_your_quackers@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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