As a European who watches American TV Shows since many many years I came to believe that this is part of the American "Telephone etiquette". Seriously.

Ah, the irony! Jarden, Garden of Eden, where nobody went missing, apart from (Adam and) Ev(i)e, right? I regard a tidbit like this and the ones that you mention as part of Lindelof's "constructionist" worldview that he layed out in several interviews before season 2 started: We build an understanding of our world by…