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FAQ about the name: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-project-named-oil http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-proj... I

by chubot 5y ago

FAQ about the name: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-project-named-oil http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html#why-is-the-proj... I kinda want to make a funny web page that insists that Oil Shell != Shell Oil just like Breakfast (meal) != Fast Break (basketball play) Blackjack (game) != Jack Black (actor) Bookcase != Casebook (type of textbook for law students) Backdrop (a kind of picture) != Drop back (football play apparently) upturn (improvement) != turn up (to be found) More examples appreciated :)

istjohn 5y ago
call out != outcall call in != incall insight != sight-in in turn != turn in instill != still in upend != end up
EdwardDiego 5y ago
* Breakwater (coastal protection against erosion) != water break (sports protection against dehydration) * love-in (peaceful public gathering focused on meditation, love, music, sex and/or use of psychedelic drugs) != in love * takeout (North American word for food intended to be consumed away from a restaurant's premises) != outtake, a scene or song not included in the final film/album, although sometimes funny ones appear in the credits. Great takeout: https://m.facebook.com/ninsbin https://m.facebook.com/ninsbin Great outtake: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpePo5Lx_I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpePo5Lx_I
- chubot 5y ago
  I like takeout / outtake :) Also thought of overturn (reverse a decision) / turnover (accounting or employees)
abalaji 5y ago
Haha, this is great @chubot you should add this to the FAQ!
noisy_boy 5y ago
Outback (any remote or sparsely populated inland region) != Backout (reversal of a software change)
asymmetric 5y ago
> Because Oil is a compliment to "metal"! You got a typo there, compliment != complement
- chubot 5y ago
  Thanks, fixed!
dotancohen 5y ago
chuck up != up chuck
kazinator 5y ago
会社 → "kaisha" → company (e.g. Google) 社会 → "shakai" → society, the world, public ... and probably thousands of others from Japanese.

by chubot 5y ago

istjohn 5y ago

call out != outcall call in != incall insight != sight-in in turn != turn in instill != still in upend != end up

EdwardDiego 5y ago

* Breakwater (coastal protection against erosion) != water break (sports protection against dehydration) * love-in (peaceful public gathering focused on meditation, love, music, sex and/or use of psychedelic drugs) != in love * takeout (North American word for food intended to be consumed away from a restaurant's premises) != outtake, a scene or song not included in the final film/album, although sometimes funny ones appear in the credits. Great takeout: https://m.facebook.com/ninsbin https://m.facebook.com/ninsbin Great outtake: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpePo5Lx_I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpePo5Lx_I

chubot 5y ago
I like takeout / outtake :) Also thought of overturn (reverse a decision) / turnover (accounting or employees)

abalaji 5y ago

Haha, this is great @chubot you should add this to the FAQ!

noisy_boy 5y ago

Outback (any remote or sparsely populated inland region) != Backout (reversal of a software change)

asymmetric 5y ago

> Because Oil is a compliment to "metal"! You got a typo there, compliment != complement

chubot 5y ago
Thanks, fixed!

dotancohen 5y ago

chuck up != up chuck

kazinator 5y ago

会社 → "kaisha" → company (e.g. Google) 社会 → "shakai" → society, the world, public ... and probably thousands of others from Japanese.