roystgnr comments on The rational way to name rivers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: roystgnr 06 August 2014 05:19:57PM 25 points [-]

The trouble is that larger rivers are likely to be referred to more often than smaller rivers, and you want the more-often-used concepts to get shorter names. Connecting river names is still good, but I think "the White Nile and the Blue Nile join to form the Nile" is a better way to do it.