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Unfortunately, it is a bad name because, right or wrong, it will be easily mispronounced. Cocky AI? Who wants that?
by icedchai 6y ago
Unfortunately, it is a bad name because, right or wrong, it will be easily mispronounced. Cocky AI? Who wants that?
- rhn_mk1 6y agoThe computing industry could get less sensitive and accept that other languages than English exist.
- caddemon 6y agoI agree, but also it's an onomatopoeia, the sound the frogs make actually is "Co-Kee". IIRC the indigenous people in Puerto Rico are the ones that named them a long time ago, but the spelling might have been influenced by the Spanish. Point being that you definitely do not need to speak a non-English language to know how to say the word, you could also just have visited Puerto Rico.
- spoonjim 6y agoKind of an Americentric perspective and also doesn't give people the benefit of the doubt. I'm an American who only speaks English but I think it's an awesome and interesting name compared to most of the lame product names out there.
- caddemon 6y agoI agree with you but also Puerto Rico is technically in the US. I think anyone that has vacationed there will recognize the word (especially with the frog logo), since they are pretty hard to miss and there is a ton of Coqui memorabilia sold at the touristy shops. Puerto Rico is a super common vacation spot for those on the East coast, so unless I'm totally overrating the memorability of these frogs I'd guess plenty of non-Spanish speaking Americans will know how to pronounce.
- bloak 6y agoIt will definitely be mispronounced if they misspell it without the accent (Coquí). I understand they don't want non-ascii in the GitHub project name that turns into a directory name, but the one-line description contains an emoji so I would have thought they could have allowed themselves a Latin-1 character there, for the benefit of people who know some Spanish but hadn't heard of the frogs.