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Name it "Rooster". Or "Gallo". Or "Poulet".

• umvi 6y ago
  Seems like a slap in the face to France. "Hi, cool tool, but we need to change the name to be Rooster, otherwise Americans will be offended because Coq sounds similar to body part slang (and they can't be bothered to look up the origin of the word despite its curious spelling)." I think we need to seriously take a look at our word outrage culture. My brother works at Cerner and recently had to drop everything to address a ticket that was prioritized above all other tickets (including patient safety tickets). He had VPs breathing down his neck until it was fixed. The ticket? The spell-checker in one of Cerner's tools suggests the n-word if you happened to misspell something similar to it (for example if you misspelled "niggard", which means stingy person). He literally had to completely remove the word from the spell check dictionary before the VPs were satisfied. "Sticks and stones" is apparently a deprecated/obsolete proverb in 2021.
  • tombert 6y ago
    > I think we need to seriously take a look at our word outrage culture. First off, who is "we" in this case? Society? The government? Professors? I don't really see this as "outrage culture". I haven't seen a bunch of bunch of posts on Twitter saying #cancelInria or anything like that. They merely saw that the name was being used to make people feel unwelcome, and decided to change it.