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Monokai was the name of the blog where the colorscheme was originally posted to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monokai.nl/blog/2006/07/

Monokai was the name of the blog where the colorscheme was originally posted to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monokai.nl/blog/2006/07/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monoka... At some point, the original author decided Monokai was a good name for both the website and the colorscheme: https://monokai.pro/ https://monokai.pro/ A different author ported the theme to Vim, and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion with the original author: https://github.com/tomasr/molokai https://github.com/tomasr/molokai

thaumasiotes 3y ago
> and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion That's likely to be pretty frustrating to people for whom N and L are the same sound.
- mathieuh 3y ago
  What languages have n and l as allophones? Genuinely interested
  - thaumasiotes 3y ago
    Cantonese, and some other nearby languages. Likely others, but Cantonese is the big one. The loss of the distinction in Cantonese is fairly recent; Chinese terms borrowed from English via Cantonese all obey the distinction, using characters that indicate the correct consonant when read in other varieties of Chinese, and you can find old English-Cantonese dictionaries that talk about how certain Cantonese accents don't make the distinction (implying that "correct" Cantonese of the time still does, which is not the case today).
- dharmab 3y ago
  Molokai is the name of a place.
  - thaumasiotes 3y ago
    Stamford is also the name of a place, but that doesn't mean you're not causing problems when you call your school "Stamford University". (I'm aware that the name is much older, but it's been displaced.) And in this case, Molokai isn't the name of a place, it's been chosen solely for its phonetic similarity to "Monokai". If I found a new Harverd University, I may be able to justify that, but I certainly can't do so on the stated grounds of "in order to avoid confusion".

thaumasiotes 3y ago

> and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion That's likely to be pretty frustrating to people for whom N and L are the same sound.

mathieuh 3y ago
What languages have n and l as allophones? Genuinely interested
- thaumasiotes 3y ago
  Cantonese, and some other nearby languages. Likely others, but Cantonese is the big one. The loss of the distinction in Cantonese is fairly recent; Chinese terms borrowed from English via Cantonese all obey the distinction, using characters that indicate the correct consonant when read in other varieties of Chinese, and you can find old English-Cantonese dictionaries that talk about how certain Cantonese accents don't make the distinction (implying that "correct" Cantonese of the time still does, which is not the case today).
dharmab 3y ago
Molokai is the name of a place.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago
  Stamford is also the name of a place, but that doesn't mean you're not causing problems when you call your school "Stamford University". (I'm aware that the name is much older, but it's been displaced.) And in this case, Molokai isn't the name of a place, it's been chosen solely for its phonetic similarity to "Monokai". If I found a new Harverd University, I may be able to justify that, but I certainly can't do so on the stated grounds of "in order to avoid confusion".