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In my professional experience as a teacher of high school children the following terms consistently cause problems in class: - git: literally a pejorative - a
by gorgoiler 6y ago
In my professional experience as a teacher of high school children the following terms consistently cause problems in class:
- git: literally a pejorative
- any website name ending in -hub, cf websites of interest to teenage boys
Imagine a software project called catshit made popular by a related website called catshitpiss where their great pearl-clutching debate is about how it potentially alienates people with cat fur allergies.
- dspillett 6y ago> - git: literally a pejorative And very deliberately so. >- any website name ending in -hub, cf websites of interest to teenage boys Does -hub have a general negative connotation in your language? In English it just refers to a centre of something, in physical objects usually something with a radial topology. If the existence of pornhub.com is enough to make the use of the pattern *hub problematical generally then I'm going to create pornbread.com and force everyone to eat untoast & butter.
- gorgoiler 6y agoMy native language, despite what people think of my ability to write, is English. Bread is too quotidian for your example, I think. Try subverting something more closely related to computers. Perhaps launching pornhaskell.co.ck would be a better attempt? It’s more likely to generate embarrassment in class if you ask the boys if they’ve been up all night with sticky Haskell problems. Good luck!
- Biganon 6y agoExcept "porn" is by definition related to porn, whereas "hub" is completely generic? Why would a word cease to be OK because a porn website has been using it?