Scott's points about legibility are also extremely applicable to high tech information processing, including and especially AI. The various battles over Real Name requirements on social media sites being a case in point.
If I remember right he has some related discussion about local naming that references relationships and is different from official naming, acting both as cultural preservation and as a sort of insider resistance to legibility. Where I live in very rural Wales there's a lot of that, people are referred to by FirstName FarmName rather than FirstName LastName and roads are referred to by the major town that they lead to, relative to your home base, rather than their official names, i.e. the Newtown Road rather than the A487.
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If I remember right he has some related discussion about local naming that references relationships and is different from official naming, acting both as cultural preservation and as a sort of insider resistance to legibility. Where I live in very rural Wales there's a lot of that, people are referred to by FirstName FarmName rather than FirstName LastName and roads are referred to by the major town that they lead to, relative to your home base, rather than their official names, i.e. the Newtown Road rather than the A487.