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why star port can not go port star?

Port star, as a name for a boat, offers something fairly obvious –
the Port bit is on portside
the Star bit comes on starboard side
However,
a
Star Port justifies itself by coming on opposite sides of a boat’s Left and Right.
Therefore,
in my mind,
a Star Port on a boat continuous to move – make various combinations – between the name
the boat and
the boat in human traditions.
Star
Port
on a boat keeps
reminding the curious question of sides, humans, names and the cosmos.
humans had to come up
with some kind of a universal name for boat sides – just to help prevent accidents.
If a human tells another to turn left – at times, and for some –
there is a question of which Left do we want to turn towards?
My left?
Your left?
When we have a port as left, all a human needs to know comes as turning to port side. (the left of the boat they are on – no matter which way the human is facing nor which direction the boat is moving.)
Yet,
there’s a whole arbitrary history that no one is entirely clear about. ie, how we ended up calling left Port and right Starboard in marine language.
Yet,
why
Star Port?
how about:
Board Port? (me, a human, B and P don’t tent to roll well one after the other.)
yet,
why not
Board Port?
or
Starboard Port?
or
SBP?
or
SB-P?
somehow these options feel fail
and
Star Port seems to offer the connections between movements that sway humanly, cosmically and marinically with one another?