The Names of Everything
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I agree with your theory of how the Zenith building was named.Miracle Chidera 1 wrote: ↑24 Nov 2021, 12:02 It's really hard to answer this question. Author's generate names based on different factors, so it relies solely on how he got his names. But the Zenith building is pretty obvious to me. Zenith means the highest point or state, peak. It represents the best of John's architectural achievements.
I believe in most cases, authors choose the names for cities, places and their characters based on what sounds fitting, symbolic reasons that add to the plot, or it could be completely randomised for all we know. Or it could be a combination of all three factors.
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I have to agree with you on this one. There may be a reason for them naming things according to what they want to name them so, if they don't specifically tell us readers why they have named something as such, then really there is nothing we can do but perhaps ask the author themselves.Desi Lemman wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021, 06:43 There is really no way of knowing why authors give certain names to certain things, people or places if they do not say why themselves (in an interview or a post). So we will have to make do with not knowing or we ask the author this question.
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