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Clippy is reborn from its ashes into a cultural icon; it made you react, therefore it's a fun name to choose. Kakoune uses a clippy ASCII art for its immediate
by jgtrosh 9y ago
Clippy is reborn from its ashes into a cultural icon; it made you react, therefore it's a fun name to choose. Kakoune uses a clippy ASCII art for its immediate help, it's nice.
- bjz_ 9y ago> Kakoune uses a clippy ASCII art for its immediate help, it's nice. Had to look this up - very cute! https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#screenshots https://github.com/mawww/kakoune#screenshots https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mawww/kakoune/master/doc/screenshot-i3.gif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mawww/kakoune/master/doc/s...
- tomsmeding 9y agoTheir choice of executable name is slightly unfortunate in Dutch, where 'kak' basically means 'shit'.
- ilammy 9y agoEastern Slavic languages like Russian also give a similar vibe to this word ('shitter').
- 534b44a 9y agoКакаю would the translated to "I poo" (hence Кака would be "poo"). Срач would be the stronger word in Russian [1]. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87
- elygre 9y agoI think “kak” would be better translated as “poo”. Parents will routinely talk to their kids about “kak”, similar to the way US parents will use the word “poo”. The word “shit” generally has a much stronger meaning (and is therefore often obscured, as “s..t” or something similar.
- lieuwex 9y agoI think "kak" still would be translated better as "shit", you wouldn't curse with "POO!". But in Dutch you can curse with "KAK!", just as 'SH*T!' in English.
- ta127388 9y agoIt was an abortive piece of crap, like most of Microsoft's offerings, when they weren't killing competitors and seeding people into government jobs to further instill their crap. Fuck you.