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I mean, it's not actually. It's just a somewhat unusual transcription (well, originally somewhat unusual, now obviously it's the official English name) of what

I mean, it's not actually. It's just a somewhat unusual transcription (well, originally somewhat unusual, now obviously it's the official English name) of what might be more usually transcribed as "Gojira".

s1gnp0st 3y ago
Ah, I thought the Japanese word was just "jira". My mistake.
- postmodest 3y ago
  That's an entirely different monster.
  - eichin 3y ago
    Indeed, but not an entirely unrelated one though - per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jira_(software)#Naming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jira_(software)#Naming the inspiration path was Bugzilla -> Godzilla -> Gojira -> Jira (which is why Confluence keeps correcting me when I try to spell it JIRA)
- VinLucero 3y ago
  I see what you did there.