Project needs a name (was: Summary: Python.org as a multi-language portal (was: Some thoughts about Python, python.org and non-English languages))

Tim Rowe tim at remove_if_not_spam.digitig.co.uk
Fri Feb 21 10:27:17 EST 2003


Peter Hansen wrote:
> Fred Pacquier wrote:
> 
>>"M. Müller-Oertel" <mueller-oertel at arcor.de> said :
>>
>>
>>>Since the presented concept got many friendly comments (thank you
>>>all!), I decided to continue working on it.
>>>
>>>Now this little (?) project urgently needs a name. I performed a
>>>one-man-brainstorming and wrote down these:
>>>
>>> * Cosmopolitan Python
>>> * Python for Everyone (a variant of "computer programming for
>>> everybody") * International Python
>>>
>>>What do you think? Any comment on these and any other idea and is most
>>>welcome!
>>
>>I guess such a project, by its very nature, should strive for a language-
>>neutral name, not an english one : an acronym maybe, a twist like the
>>suggested "P4n", or a mix of neutral names like "Babel Python" ?
> 
> 
> (As EMF has suggested in parallel.)
> 
> 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.  ;-)

Time for a thread convergence? How about the Esperanto (should I say 
E7o) "Pitono"?





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