Any such thing could easily be assigned some such "Phenomenon 8x306Q".
If any two people agree to call it that and use that to succesfully discuss the thing, then that is a name for the thing.
Otherwise nothing can be named. Is the cat in your house really a cat, or is it a Felis catus? How can we be certain that it's not a gato or a кот? If the cat in your house is indeed a кот, gato, Felis catus, and cat, then Phenomenon 8x306Q can certainly be Penomenon 8x306Q as much as it is "familial bonds strained by misdeeds" or whatever the things we're naming is.
Are there countably many names? Countably sayable, perhaps, but I don't recall seeing any limitation to word length in the spec. See: "Below is the full 189,819-lettered word for 'titin':" at https://cw39.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/longest... as an example.
Surely if we can have a 189,819 lettered word we can have a million billion trillion lettered word or an uncountably lettered word. They'd be used in the same way as the really long numbers in that we'd give them some other handier name that collides when not given context. e.g. In spoken language pi/pie are often confused if the conversation does not already have a mathematical context and no one says 3.1415926535... conversationally just as no one uses the lenghtier version of chitin and no one would use the uncountably long name for some uncountably long number.
A number is not in the first place its digit sequence. A number like pi is in the first place the ratio of a circle's diameter and its circumference, and only incidentally a certain (infinite) decimal expansion. A name is in the first place something you say, hence the thing you say has to be (at least theoretically) sayable.
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If any two people agree to call it that and use that to succesfully discuss the thing, then that is a name for the thing.
Otherwise nothing can be named. Is the cat in your house really a cat, or is it a Felis catus? How can we be certain that it's not a gato or a кот? If the cat in your house is indeed a кот, gato, Felis catus, and cat, then Phenomenon 8x306Q can certainly be Penomenon 8x306Q as much as it is "familial bonds strained by misdeeds" or whatever the things we're naming is.
Surely if we can have a 189,819 lettered word we can have a million billion trillion lettered word or an uncountably lettered word. They'd be used in the same way as the really long numbers in that we'd give them some other handier name that collides when not given context. e.g. In spoken language pi/pie are often confused if the conversation does not already have a mathematical context and no one says 3.1415926535... conversationally just as no one uses the lenghtier version of chitin and no one would use the uncountably long name for some uncountably long number.