On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 22:02 +0000, José Matos wrote:
On Monday 28 January 2008 21:09:59 seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 23:05 +0200, Riku Seppälä wrote:
> > I just read from the Fedora weekly news that the codename for Fedora 9
> > is Sulphur.
> > Sulphur is "rikki" in Finnish. Rikki also means "broken" in
Finnish. :)
> > Well it's not really that funny but just thought I'd mention it.
>
> yah, we've been through this before, it seems to be linguistically
> impossible to find any single word in any language which does not sound
> like or translate to some sort of pejorative in some other language.
>
> so we persevere :)
FWIW fedor (that sounds almost like fedora) in Portuguese means "really bad
smell" so we don't even need to wait for release names. :-)
We've known that one for a long time. It may have even been you who
mentioned it. I gave up caring about various interpretations in all
languages a long time ago. Hell, if a name like "blows chunks with
gusto" happened for our F13 release, that'd be fine.
-sv