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This is a horrible name even for native english speakers. I still have to coach people not to giggle whenever I bring up LaTeX - unless it's exclusively vocall

by munk-a 7y ago

This is a horrible name even for native english speakers. I still have to coach people not to giggle whenever I bring up LaTeX - unless it's exclusively vocally in which case the "lah-TECH" puts their mind elsewhere.

lacker 7y ago
Really? Why, because they make condoms with latex? Or tight clothes? I wouldn’t expect people to care about that word.
- setr 7y ago
  Latex is strongly associated with BDSM.
  - tluyben2 7y ago
    ... in some (BDSM fahig?) circles? I know it's used there, but there are quite a lot of other things I think of before that. And some colleagues I just asked as well.
TurboHaskal 7y ago
I kinda miss those times where you could talk about those Thinkpad clits at work and no one would bat an eye. The degree of puritanism of the new generation is a bit terrifying. We had plenty of women in the lab, btw.
- munk-a 7y ago
  I don't think it's puritanism, it's just keeping things separate. In an office we're all there to work and not get embroiled in relationship drama - so calling that nub a clit is just unnecessarily bringing sex into things.