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)
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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