Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/17/2012 10:56 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
Does that really matter? But if you insist: pronouncing it in a similar way as "I fart cool" should come close, I think. Better ask that someone from Iceland, though...
Well, yes, it does, because people are going to want to be able to talk about it. Do you really think that "I fart cool" is an appropriate name for a Fedora version? For that matter, was Beefy Miracle really that appropriate?
A release name is just a way to identify a set, and if Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich are okay, why not Beefy Miracle? Essentially none are "meaningful," simply unique identifiers used to facilitate identification. It is a lot less likely to say the wrong version when they are unlike than to say an incorrect Windows version.
If I can find a copy of my essay on naming units I'll post a link, Google can't find it. IIRC the original title was "Disambiguation of unit names in scientific nomenclature" and the proceedings replaced it with "What's in a Name?" and used the original title as a subtitle in the article itself.