Taboo slang

Taboo slang

Posted Dec 9, 2004 12:50 UTC (Thu) by phd (subscriber, #952)
In reply to: Debian and the hot babe problem by LogicG8
Parent article: Debian and the hot babe problem

> key word "offensive"

It is not of any help to turn "offensiveness" off. In Russian language the root (stem) "eb" corresponds to English "f*ck". Imagine how we the poor Russians feel looking at the name "ebuild"! How can we pronounce it on a street?!

Well, there are worse problems with "eb". "eBuisines" translated to Russian "eCommerce", but what can we do with "ebXML"?

There are also many other dirty words. Zope, well-known web-application server, looks in Russian as the Russian word "asshole". And often abused by people who dislike Zope.

I think it is unavoidable. There are far too many dirty words in all languages.

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