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> since as a French speaker, "boob" wasn't part of my vocabulary. I think this sentence has been carefully constructed to be kind of true. The original author
by temac 5y ago
> since as a French speaker, "boob" wasn't part of my vocabulary.
I think this sentence has been carefully constructed to be kind of true. The original author certainly knew what "boob" mean at the time. And the name "weboob" was voluntarily chosen as a pun. Now if you ask him maybe he will deny (I have other memories, but who cares) or maybe he will simply say that we do not use "boob" on a day to day basis in french so the pun seemed completely inconsequential.
But frankly, that's not a big deal, and nobody gives a shit to begin with. Everybody has been young, and some big bosses of far bigger companies have way more annoying histories. As for his company "budget insight", IIRC they already had contracts with some banks when it was still called "weboob" with even more terrible module names available.
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoPerhaps cf. the theorem-proving assistant Coq, in which case the authors almost certainly knew exactly what they were doing, the idea apparently being that it is good and proper for Anglocentrism to make us uncomfortable in light of superior French scholarship. Still, the community has been quietly mulling a name change for a while [1]. [1] https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/Alternative-names https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/Alternative-names
- littlestymaar 5y ago> I think this sentence has been carefully constructed to be kind of true. The original author certainly knew what "boob" mean at the time. Maybe, but not certainly. Do not assume too much English proficiency in France in 2010. It has changed a lot in the past decade, with most of the French hacker spaces disappearing or fusing in the global internet, but I still remember the 2000s, when we were hanging around in French IRC channels or forums.