Re: Announcement: The birth of Ophal Project

[Lee Hickey <lahickey@...>]

On 18 August 2011 10:02, Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@gmx.net> wrote:

On 17/08/2011 12:20, Lee Hickey wrote:

And one minor point - you might want to reconsider the name. When I, as
a native English speaker, read it, I read it as offal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal)

I think it is hard to come with a name that hasn't a negative sense in one language or the other... :-)
For example, to remain on this vein, if you name your software Trip, I might complain it sounds too much like French's "tripes", which means guts (also in the culinary sense).

Yes, very much so. I find it hard to come up with names at all, let alone ones without peculiar connotations in other languages. 

In English we have tripe too. It's stomach lining, usually from a cow. Not really my cup-of-tea :)

I wasn't criticising Fernando at all, just pointing out that the word essentially means 'entrails'.

 

Perhaps one should make a phonetic dictionary of negative (short) words (crap, hell, etc.) in most major languages... But given the number of argot synonyms of such words, it would be a big work! ^_^'

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