Project needs a name (was: Summary: Python.org as a multi-language portal (was: Some thoughts about Python, python.org and non-English languages))
rzed
Dick.Zantow at lexisnexis.com
Fri Feb 21 10:47:23 EST 2003
Fred Pacquier wrote:
> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> said :
>
> [P4n]
>>
>> It's too bad that even this is not language-neutral, as any English
>> speaker would of course have to pronounce it as "P-foreign", which
>> shows the usual strong anglocentric bias that anything not English
>> must therefore be foreign. ;-)
>
> Hadn't thought of saying it aloud -- nice point ;-)
A leet-speaker would pronounce it "pan," I suppose. Which wouldn't be
a bad name, actually, to imply an all-embracing language. As essential
as bread. As simple as cooking implement.
Okay, I can hear you panning the suggestion already.
--
rzed
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