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Is it just me, or do I see a trend in naming projects using romance language words (Italian/Spanish/France)? Does it sound more exotic? Are these words less cr

Is it just me, or do I see a trend in naming projects using romance language words (Italian/Spanish/France)? Does it sound more exotic? Are these words less crowded?

andreynering 6y ago
I'm curious on why you call these languages "romance" languages. "Piscina" is a Portuguese word for "pool", by the way.
- age008 6y ago
  To quote Wikipedia, "Romance languages (less commonly Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth centuries." "Piscina" is also "pool" in Romanian, which is, you guessed, a Romance language.
  - andreynering 6y ago
    Got it. In Portuguese they're only known for "Latin languages", which explains my question. ;-)
    - Kaze404 6y ago
      Not really. I've personally heard the term before. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADnguas_rom%C3%A2nicas https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADnguas_rom%C3%A2nicas
      - gdsimoes 6y ago
        I haven’t. Maybe it’s not a popular term in Brazil.
- mayank 6y ago
  > I'm curious on why you call these languages "romance" languages. That's what they're called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
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- rodrigodiez 6y ago
  Romance languages are those derived from vulgar latin. They are called romance because Rome (Roma) Portuguese is also a romance language, as Spanish or Italian. Piscina also means pool in Spanish by the way :) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
- zdragnar 6y ago
  Maybe it is just an English thing, but Romance languages are anything evolved from latin (predumably spread by the Roman empire, hence "romance"). Portuguese is included in the list, fwiw. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
- th3h4mm3r 6y ago
  Also in Italy, we say "piscina" in the same way.
- olakease 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
G4BB3R 6y ago
I think it's because most of english names are already taken.
dang 6y ago
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Is it just me, or do I see a trend in naming projects using romance language words (Italian/Spanish/France)? Does it sound more exotic? Are these words less crowded?

andreynering 6y ago

I'm curious on why you call these languages "romance" languages. "Piscina" is a Portuguese word for "pool", by the way.

age008 6y ago
To quote Wikipedia, "Romance languages (less commonly Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth centuries." "Piscina" is also "pool" in Romanian, which is, you guessed, a Romance language.
- andreynering 6y ago
  Got it. In Portuguese they're only known for "Latin languages", which explains my question. ;-)
  - Kaze404 6y ago
    Not really. I've personally heard the term before. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADnguas_rom%C3%A2nicas https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADnguas_rom%C3%A2nicas
    - gdsimoes 6y ago
      I haven’t. Maybe it’s not a popular term in Brazil.
mayank 6y ago
> I'm curious on why you call these languages "romance" languages. That's what they're called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
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rodrigodiez 6y ago
Romance languages are those derived from vulgar latin. They are called romance because Rome (Roma) Portuguese is also a romance language, as Spanish or Italian. Piscina also means pool in Spanish by the way :) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
zdragnar 6y ago
Maybe it is just an English thing, but Romance languages are anything evolved from latin (predumably spread by the Roman empire, hence "romance"). Portuguese is included in the list, fwiw. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
th3h4mm3r 6y ago
Also in Italy, we say "piscina" in the same way.
olakease 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

G4BB3R 6y ago

I think it's because most of english names are already taken.

dang 6y ago

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=community%20identity%20by:dang&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=community%20identity%20by:dang...