Yes. In fact I propose that giving methods pronounceable names is an anti-pattern. Method names should be random strings of characters. Then you don't fall into the temptation of not reading the documentation and assuming things. In fact, make them long enough so that you can't memorize them.
someObj.dbrdCfj34uW31U289u(x)
This avoids a lot of frustration. Imagine if this was called someObj.sqrt(x). People could jump to the conclusion that this takes the square root of a value, when in reality it only does so on weekdays. On weekends it returns the CPU temperature.
I suspect you are being facetious, but I've for a long time thought that this was actually an okay idea, even for systems less screwed up than PHP.
When I need to write a function with lots of complex interactions, I mash the keyboard rather than try to come up with a name that's misleadingly simple. That way you have to read the documentation.
At least in PHP. Unfortunately in my experience the PHP documentation is not frequently read by PHP developers or even PHP internals developers. It seems to exist mainly for PHP hatebloggers, for whom it's a gold mine.
This illustrates some problems with the PHP way of doing things. For some reason the PHP internals community prefers to have this function continue to spit out garbage when given invalid inputs instead of throwing an error, especially if spitting out garbage is what was done in the past. The answer is always, "Don't do that. RTFM." but most developers don't read the documentation for each and every function that they use, but rather rely on the name of and common sense until there's a error. If there's no error, the documentation never gets read.
I use PHP a lot (primary product is written in it) and I actually mostly like using it but you can get really burnt applying the "principle of least surprise" to the PHP standard library.
I really wish there was more support behind the idea of creating a new standard library and gradually deprecating the old one, it's been tried but never gets any traction.
Meanwhile frameworks and libraries continue to add their own (often very good) helper libraries to smooth the edges.
