At 09:19 PM 10/15/2005 +1000, David O'Shea wrote:
Also, sorry, but I have to say that in my head I read "2WAT" as a rude word :) Have you considered any other names? :)
You can't be serious. Do you cringe when you read and hear in the news about Shiite Muslims? Or about the Vinh Phuc province of Vietnam, or follow-up stories on Kim Phuc whose photo as a napalmed girl in Vietnam won the photographer a Pulitzer Prize?
Ask Americans what they think of the old British slang for cigarettes, or what the British in turn think when Americans use the term 'fanny pack'.
The easily offended in nomenclature must surely avoid software as found at http://web.ripnet.com/~wmunro/ass_faq.html or the programming language described here: www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/ . There are those who must object to GIMP as a rude synonym for being crippled, despite the program's stature in the Linux community.
It's not as if the name TCC2WAT were deliberately contrived to be rude, or that it parses as rude in its entirety. If software developers need to consider the potential rudeness of substrings of their softwares' name, we are all in trouble.
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