Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made

Posted Dec 14, 2015 12:51 UTC (Mon) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
In reply to: Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made by epa
Parent article: Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made

Sure ?
At least in Russian it simply means "to work".

Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made

Posted Dec 14, 2015 13:29 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

It's often the case that similar words mean completely different things even in fairly closely related Slavic languages. Words for "fresh food" in Czech sound like "stale poison" in Russian, for example.

Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made

Posted Dec 14, 2015 20:43 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

And may in fact be referring to the same item, there is no accounting for sarcasm 8-)

Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made

Posted Dec 14, 2015 22:31 UTC (Mon) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link] (1 responses)

Keep in mind that "раб" has the same stem. So's "ребенок", for that matter (and yes, it really used to imply a very low social status of child in question). Original form appears to have been a cognate of "orphan", with the usual metathese of word-initial vowel+R...

All this stuff is missing the point, though - there are tons of potentially offensive terminology that only utter twits would try to remove. Remember the Jesux hoax and morons who'd taken it seriously? "Slave" has nasty associations, indeed, but so does "demon" (and, for real fundies, "daemon" as well). And let's recall such syscalls as kill(2) - if _that_ doesn't have unpleasant associations, I don't know what does. So's "orphan", for that matter...

Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made

Posted Dec 14, 2015 23:38 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Don't forget "strip", "mount" and some meanings of "finger". There's a whole sexual harassment lawsuit right in there!

Oh, and "zombie"...