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Rincon was almost certainly a real estate marketing name a hundred years ago.



No, it is named for Rincon Point, which took its name from Rincón, the Spanish word for 'corner'.

Bored cynicism kinda requires the underlying reality support one's cynicism.


But that name certainly wasn't the name the natives gave it before the Spanish expedition came around. Names change over time. Sometimes because of rebranding, sometimes because of hostile takeover of foreign land.

Call it what you want, but I don't see the point of being concerned over the change.


Did you think of the mailman?

I get postal mail for someone living a few blocks away because they're technically in another suburb with a slightly worse reputation, and their real estate agent sold them on the idea they were in my suburb instead.

The post office, however, isn't paying attention to marketing or non-profit interest groups, it's paying attention to council zoning and regulation.

So every so often, I get mail addressed to a street name similar to mine, but in the next suburb over.

Names change over time, but when there's a central registry of names with a democratically founded process for managing those names, and the names are a public utility for locating things, it's best we don't just shit all over it and make up whatever we like because it suits us at the time.


Why did Constantinople get the works?




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