> I've often wondered whether foreign users ever get annoyed with some of our names that happen to acronym to something unfortunate in their native language. Do they just have to live with it, or does it never happen?
All the time, and the response from devs ... depends. Remember the recent Pik image format? Or Pidora linux, which to a russian ear sound akin to "FedoPiLix"? Or Vista, which is exactly "chicken" in latvian?
Mostly you kind of keep laughing and wincing for a few years, then you sorta get used to it.
All the time, and the response from devs ... depends. Remember the recent Pik image format? Or Pidora linux, which to a russian ear sound akin to "FedoPiLix"? Or Vista, which is exactly "chicken" in latvian?
Mostly you kind of keep laughing and wincing for a few years, then you sorta get used to it.