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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).
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! ^_^'
-- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --