Funny Names (was Re: Just like in our DNA...)

[David Oppenheimer]

Just a little side note Siggy.  The URL in your signature line contains a comma
after the www instead of a period (or dot).  Thought you'd like to know.  Yes I
do actually visit some of those URL's just to see what people think is so
important about their site.

Sincerely,

David Oppenheimer

Siggy Brentrup wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I really don't want to take part in that silly DNA thread, hence the
> change in subject.
>
> François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > You would not believe the number of times I did have to type this stupid
> > `robotussin' program name over the years, having not much clue from time
> > to time how I should exactly spell it.  The usual English dictionaries
> > and textbooks I consult would not give a clue.
>
> Don't cry too much, if you don't like to type that word there alway is
> `alias' or if that's not available write a simple wrapper script.
>
> Maybe there are  associations in french I don't know of? In german
> "Tussi" is a quite despective(? despektierlich in german) slang word
> for "young woman". I'd always take identifiers from a foreign language
> with a grain of salt.
>
> > In an international community of free software developers, we try to use
> > a reasonable level of English, and it is a real pleasure that people are
> > impeccable, on the average.  And if it gets difficult, there is no problem
> > if the difficulty brings with it some bits of culture, literature, movies,
> > theatre; this is all good, nice, and very welcome.  But when the difficulty
> > gets reduced to a local-centric commercial trademark for some insignificant
> > drug, by all the hell tell me, which kind of culture is that...
>
> Take it easy François, you're living in an - at least partially -
> english speaking country :) so your odds at grok-ing those jokes stand
> a lot better than mine.
>
> As a non-native english speaker I always find it amusing to
> learn from associations like this about the culture of the creator.
> Aren't the US the marketing hype country per se? (No pun intended).
>
> CU
>   Siggy
>
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