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tit-for-tat is a deliberate trade with someone else, no? Often in a venal sort of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" way. How can that be the same as the naming convention trends freetx mentioned...?

tit-for-tat is a repeated game strategy where you defect after your opponent defects and cooperate after they cooperate.

If the rich perceive the poor choosing from a different set of names as cooperation, then this is potentially tit-for-tat: i.e. the rich will stick with their stuffy rich people names unless the poors start coopting them.

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oh man, what am I thinking about?!

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Your usage is an example of tit-for-tat: I choose to scratch your back if you scratched mine and I don't if you didn't.

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