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douche marks (one of the names people were calling them) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181639 Yeah now i

by dngray 7y ago

douche marks (one of the names people were calling them) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181639 Yeah now it's called Libra. I can totally see my daughter wanting to think about her girl products every time she uses this coin. They better consider how their marketing will look if they want to enter the Australian market. Especially with this day and age of memes. Usually what the teens find "cool" is what the older generations adopt.

pdpi 7y ago
> Yeah now it's called Libra. I can totally see my daughter wanting to think about her girl products every time she uses this coin. The iPad didn't really suffer much from the same naming "problem". Libra is pretty much just the latin name for "Pound". It's a pretty damn good name for the currency.
- dngray 7y ago
  > The iPad didn't really suffer much from the same naming "problem". It's not really the same thing. Pad can often refer to things like "pads of paper", or be a slang name for an apartment. > Libra is pretty much just the latin name for "Pound". It's a pretty damn good name for the currency. A lot of teenagers probably aren't going to know that. Whereas there is literally a brand called "Libra" that makes tampons, pads and those sorts of products. That is what people think of here when they hear that, either that or the star sign.
  - supakeen 7y ago
    The Libra name is only used in Australia and New Zealand [0], it's unlikely that two things carrying the same name will influence the brand of Facebook's currency a whole lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libresse#International_branding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libresse#International_brandin...
    - stcredzero 7y ago
      The first thing I thought about was Libranet Linux.
      - dngray 7y ago
        > The first thing I thought about was Libranet Linux. Yes and you're on HN like me. This site caters for a certain audience.

by dngray 7y ago

pdpi 7y ago

> Yeah now it's called Libra. I can totally see my daughter wanting to think about her girl products every time she uses this coin. The iPad didn't really suffer much from the same naming "problem". Libra is pretty much just the latin name for "Pound". It's a pretty damn good name for the currency.

dngray 7y ago
> The iPad didn't really suffer much from the same naming "problem". It's not really the same thing. Pad can often refer to things like "pads of paper", or be a slang name for an apartment. > Libra is pretty much just the latin name for "Pound". It's a pretty damn good name for the currency. A lot of teenagers probably aren't going to know that. Whereas there is literally a brand called "Libra" that makes tampons, pads and those sorts of products. That is what people think of here when they hear that, either that or the star sign.
- supakeen 7y ago
  The Libra name is only used in Australia and New Zealand [0], it's unlikely that two things carrying the same name will influence the brand of Facebook's currency a whole lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libresse#International_branding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libresse#International_brandin...
  - stcredzero 7y ago
    The first thing I thought about was Libranet Linux.
    - dngray 7y ago
      > The first thing I thought about was Libranet Linux. Yes and you're on HN like me. This site caters for a certain audience.