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Some stats about the various ways of writing the project name (taken from these comments): Fuchsia: 39 Fuschia: 19 Fushia: 1 Fuchia: 1 Other: ? ...so we c
by rob74 5y ago
Some stats about the various ways of writing the project name (taken from these comments):
Fuchsia: 39
Fuschia: 19
Fushia: 1
Fuchia: 1
Other: ?
...so we can conclude that the UX of this codename is terrible. Maybe they should change it to something more easy to remember, e.g. Fuxia (Fucksya would probably also be easier to remember, but could be deemed too obscene)?
- catchclose8919 5y ago...I honestly propose a new "F*ks Yeah!" spelling for this project just to mindfuck with future programmer archaeologists
- detritus 5y agoThe more popular it becomes, the more people will learn to correctly spell fooshia.
- orthoxerox 5y agoFewsha?
- inops 5y agoNaming it "Fucksya" wouldn't be the best advertisement either
- xattt 5y agoThey’re being fearless about vendor lock-in!
- lnxg33k1 5y agoIn italian the color name is fuxia
- say-what-now 5y agoThe color's name is Fucsia, in Italian. Fuxia does not exist https://linguaegrammatica.com/fucsia-o-fuxia-come-scrivere https://linguaegrammatica.com/fucsia-o-fuxia-come-scrivere
- lnxg33k1 5y agoI think for a part you are correct, and for a part you are not correct, but if fuxia exist as a way to refer to the color in many places and/or instances, then Fuxia exists as a way to refer to the color and the fact that it does not exist is just theoretical https://www.google.com/search?q=fuxia&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=fuxia&tbm=isch
- steinuil 5y agoTrue, but then again Italian has regular pronunciation rules and "x" is always pronounced the same way as "cs", so even if "fuxia" is not a proper spelling it's a homophone and I wouldn't be surprised to see somebody make that spelling mistake.
- naoqj 5y agoMy conclusion from reading this is that Americans can't spell.
- activitypea 5y agoThen you can imagine how hard the name is for the other 7.5 billion people.
- makeitdouble 5y agoIt's still a situation with no clear solution. Either it's a common word that is just hard to spell, and sticking to actual spelling is the saving grace as people who didn't know the spell will have a fighting chance to remember it. Either they come up with an easier to spell version (e.g. "fuxia", but then those who knew the right spell will have to remember both, and those who "misspelled" the flower will be thinking Google's project name is the "correct" spelling.
- activitypea 5y agoThere's still plenty of uncommon words that are easy to spell. "Anodyne" is a good example, it even sounds cool, but sadly means something not so cool.
- naoqj 5y agoIs it? "Fuchsia" and derivatives are the names of a colour in romance languages - that covers a big chunk of that.
- gadders 5y agoThe colour is named after a plant, which looks down is named after a German chap called Fuchs.
- jbirer 5y agoI am Romanian and I have no trouble spelling and writing "Fuchsia".
- ggm 5y agoA plant family named after a person called Fuchs.
- zoltar 5y ago...and no comments in here with either pink or Taligent?
- Razengan 5y agoA useful mnemonic may be “Fuck Sia”, at least that was how I broke it down.
- nix23 5y agoWatch you mouth young fellow!!! ;) https://sia.tech https://sia.tech
- davnn 5y agoThe name is perfectly fine from the perspective of a german-native speaker, just like the color Fuchsia.
- aynsof 5y agoTo be fair, I didn't think anyone would be able to spell 'kubernetes' correctly. But life found a way - thank goodness for numeronyms!
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- pch00 5y agoNot to mention the Fuchsia logo looks very much like the Fedora Linux logo.