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New Scientist have actually asked people to not send in examples anymore. Maybe we're too effective at curating them?
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Very common in [[Western Animation|cartoons]], where the meaning is most times not hidden at all, except that the target audience may not have the vocabulary to get the joke. Also common in [[Anime]], since Japanese names have a lot of obvious literal meaning to start with. See notes at [[Theme Naming]].
Real-life examples of this are often referred to as "aptronyms". The magazine ''New Scientist'' refers to it as "nominative determinism" in a tongue-in-cheek manner, and
This goes back to the Bible and probably turns up in the books of other religions, due to the way that names in many different cultures had significance beyond the merely cosmetic.
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