>>>I have other areas in my life where I move similarly, all based on principle and devotion to faith. Calling something "Thor" is a choice. And it has ramifications in what that name conveys. I consider these things. I've even renamed my Liberty Software Foundation (LibSF) to now be called 3Alive because of what it conveys.
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>>Do you also consider possibility that names or words that you use may have meanings/connotation in languages or culture other than your own? Do you also consider possible problems when transliteration occurs (as well as the usual problems when going between tonal and non-tonal language) ?
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>I have considered those things, but there's nothing I can do about it. If I discovered that a common name I use for something in English means something wholly offensive in another language, I would consider changing it. It would depend on what it was.
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>My advice to Tore to change the name of Thor is to remove the mythological god connotation.

On the aside, I'm usually mildly amused whenever I get the comment "(I'm surprised that) you don't have an accent" -- to which I jokingly correct them and state that I *do* have an accent -- an American accent -- Californian to be more exact -- one that indicates being from Southern or Central California, with some indicators that would point at having Japanese ancestry (as if the given name and surname wouldn't already give that away).

Also on the aside, I found it amusing that throughout the 1980s and 1990s, I frequently got mailings and phone calls that were directed to senior citizens -- because of (an assumption about) my given name. Since I don't have a "Western" given name, the common assumption that I must be "issei" (first generation*) who probably arrived prior to the 1940s (this being that in many cases, generations born in the USA tend to have "western" given names). Technically I'm "sansei" (third generation*). Sine the 2010s, the situation has "flipped" -- now I'm old enough to join AARP and the mailings and phone calls I get are primarily directed at people in the 20s and 30s -- again based on assumptions based on my given name (based on a trend starting around the late 1970s where it became common for children with "ethnic" given names).

* East Asians tend to use convention of generation counting that starts with the immigrant generation -- thus immigrant generation is considered first, the first generation born would be second, and so forth.