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Well, that name probably didn't help much either.
by nefitty 11y ago
Well, that name probably didn't help much either.
- V-2 11y agoWhy? Honest question - a non-native speaker here. Does it have any hidden connotations, or just weird
- nefitty 11y ago"Jorf" is just an ugly word. It also evokes guttural body sounds like "barf" and "urgh", the kind someone makes when they're sick... It might be just from a native English speaker's perspective. I know English in general is not an appealing language to some ears from non-English speaking countries.
- V-2 11y agoThanks for shedding some light on it. Personally I quite like the sound of English (my native tongue being Polish), and "jorf" doesn't sound to me any worse than Jeff or Ralph :) but obviously I don't have the same sensitivity as native speakers.
- hobs 11y agoInteresting you say that, you may not know that Ralph is also slang for "to vomit". I don't think "to Jeff" is anything yet.
- V-2 11y agoHaha no I didn't. I just tried to think up an example of something phonetically similar but innocent, but there you go. Bad for Ralphs I guess. We've got an old idiom that subtitutes vomiting for "going to Riga" (the Latvian capital). Not really aimed against Latvians, it just plays on certain phonetic similarity of Ryga and "rzygać" (to puke). Different languages, same bag of tricks.
- Reason077 11y agoYeah. "Josephine’s Recipe Filer"? JORF?! It all just sounds so un-cool compared to "Perl" or "Python". Not being open-source wouldn't have helped either.
- tjr 11y agoMake it GPL, assign copyright to the FSF, and release it as GNU JORF. Sounds much better.
- cows_i_have 11y agoWhat a name right? Sounds like some weird kind of European ball game.