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Karton, Dutch for 'cardboard'. Chosen because it is a tool to handle (virtual) boxes, maybe?

• atomicnumber3 1y ago
  No need to contact the Dutch for this one - I assume it's just "carton" with the C replaced with K
  • hagbard_c 1y ago
    Ah, but the Dutch can get there without indirection which means they're faster than those label-swapping Anglo- and Francophones.
    • pkaye 1y ago
      I would have gone with a creative name like kvm.
    • gerdesj 1y ago
      French is not Germanic. It's a Romance language, so closer to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etc English, German and Dutch are Germanic.
      • hagbard_c 1y ago
        It is a curious fact that grasshoppers have their ears in their legs. Curious, interesting and as relevant to the discourse as the fact that French is a Romance language. Maybe you intended to respond elsewhere in this thread?
• sureglymop 1y ago
  Could be German as well.
  • gerdesj 1y ago
    English, Dutch and German are all ... Germanic. English is the weird one, except for the others.
    • guappa 1y ago
      If a word is the same in italian and in english, 99% of the times it doesn't have german origins.
• EasyMark 1y ago
  I assumed it was a mild allusion to VirtualBox, which I always call vbox