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sounds like a type of cancer. open source needs to pay more attention to branding.

by ponker 6y ago

ajnin 6y ago
I thought so too. It sounds uncomfortably close to "pleurome" which is a French word for pleural cancer. I'm not sure if there is a similar English word. I looked up pleroma, and apparently it is a word of Greek origins which means the fullness of divine excellencies and powers. Quite an ambitious name.
- ponker 6y ago
  I don't know about French but "oma" is the medical suffix for swelling/growth, whether benign or malignant. E.g. sarcoma/carcinoma/lymphoma/melanoma/hematoma.
- Vosporos 6y ago
  It also sounds uncomfortably close to plérôme… hmmm…
yborg 6y ago
Python sounds like a large predatory snake.
- danwills 6y ago
  named monty
  - pndy 6y ago
    You got very good marks.
- boring_twenties 6y ago
  Yeah but not too many people have had personal negative experiences with those. Cancer, unfortunately, is not uncommon.
- Vosporos 6y ago
  Open-source needs to pay more attention to branding
9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
"A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server" is also completely impenetrable to anyone outside a narrow circle of us geeks.
- deleted 6y ago
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- Vosporos 6y ago
  self-hosted software generally is, that's why some people take of hosting so that the general public can migrate off Facebook and Twitter without having to worry about technical stuff.
romanoderoma 6y ago
It really depends on whether you are a native English speaker from the other side of the Ocean and never heard of other languages, you come from the Old Continent and etymology for you means "Greek and Latin only" or you are from everywhere else and just don't care. Pleroma means > (Koinē Greek: πλήρωμα) generally refers to the totality of divine powers It is also used in the new testament with different meanings, such as - to fill up an empty thing (e.g. Matthew 13:48), or - to complete an incomplete thing (e.g. Matthew 5:17); It sounds good to me as branding. TBH it also sounds similar to plèura s. f. [Greek πλευρά «side of the body, rib»]. which is the membrane that covers the lungs
- ponker 6y ago
  You have a good point -- I've never heard of other languages, so that's why it sounded like sarcoma or carcinoma or lymphoma or melanoma or those kinds of words to me.
  - romanoderoma 6y ago
    That was my point: correlation is not causation. There are a lot of words that ends in oma, not all of them are cancer names. Just a few from an Italian dictionary - perizoma (thong) - policroma (multi-coloured) - genoma (genome) - diploma (I think it's diploma as well in English) I guess the confusion comes from the suffix -òma [Greek -ωμα] + ώματος which reads as matos (ò-matos -> oma) and means different things in scientific terminology - in medical terms indicates a swelling like ematoma (bruise) or a type of cancer (you know that) - in biology it means a functional unit (condrioma the set of all the mitochondrion) Pleroma, instead, comes from the verb πληρόω (it reads plero) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%89 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CF%8... I'm sorry if I can't be more precise, my studies of Greek and Latin ended in high school, decades ago.
    - ponker 6y ago
      Hum, interesting, but that's why I said that open source needs to pay more attention to branding, not to Ovid.

sounds like a type of cancer. open source needs to pay more attention to branding.

by ponker 6y ago

sounds like a type of cancer. open source needs to pay more attention to branding.

I thought so too. It sounds uncomfortably close to "pleurome" which is a French word for pleural cancer. I'm not sure if there is a similar English word. I looked up pleroma, and apparently it is a word of Greek origins which means the fullness of divine excellencies and powers. Quite an ambitious name.

ponker 6y ago
I don't know about French but "oma" is the medical suffix for swelling/growth, whether benign or malignant. E.g. sarcoma/carcinoma/lymphoma/melanoma/hematoma.
Vosporos 6y ago
It also sounds uncomfortably close to plérôme… hmmm…

yborg 6y ago

Python sounds like a large predatory snake.

danwills 6y ago
named monty
- pndy 6y ago
  You got very good marks.
boring_twenties 6y ago
Yeah but not too many people have had personal negative experiences with those. Cancer, unfortunately, is not uncommon.
Vosporos 6y ago
Open-source needs to pay more attention to branding

9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago

"A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server" is also completely impenetrable to anyone outside a narrow circle of us geeks.

deleted 6y ago
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Vosporos 6y ago
self-hosted software generally is, that's why some people take of hosting so that the general public can migrate off Facebook and Twitter without having to worry about technical stuff.

romanoderoma 6y ago

It really depends on whether you are a native English speaker from the other side of the Ocean and never heard of other languages, you come from the Old Continent and etymology for you means "Greek and Latin only" or you are from everywhere else and just don't care. Pleroma means > (Koinē Greek: πλήρωμα) generally refers to the totality of divine powers It is also used in the new testament with different meanings, such as - to fill up an empty thing (e.g. Matthew 13:48), or - to complete an incomplete thing (e.g. Matthew 5:17); It sounds good to me as branding. TBH it also sounds similar to plèura s. f. [Greek πλευρά «side of the body, rib»]. which is the membrane that covers the lungs

ponker 6y ago
You have a good point -- I've never heard of other languages, so that's why it sounded like sarcoma or carcinoma or lymphoma or melanoma or those kinds of words to me.
- romanoderoma 6y ago
  That was my point: correlation is not causation. There are a lot of words that ends in oma, not all of them are cancer names. Just a few from an Italian dictionary - perizoma (thong) - policroma (multi-coloured) - genoma (genome) - diploma (I think it's diploma as well in English) I guess the confusion comes from the suffix -òma [Greek -ωμα] + ώματος which reads as matos (ò-matos -> oma) and means different things in scientific terminology - in medical terms indicates a swelling like ematoma (bruise) or a type of cancer (you know that) - in biology it means a functional unit (condrioma the set of all the mitochondrion) Pleroma, instead, comes from the verb πληρόω (it reads plero) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%89 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CF%8... I'm sorry if I can't be more precise, my studies of Greek and Latin ended in high school, decades ago.
  - ponker 6y ago
    Hum, interesting, but that's why I said that open source needs to pay more attention to branding, not to Ovid.