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This is a non-issue. Look at MongoDB. If you want to say "You're a retard" in German you'd say "Du bist ein Mongo". Mongo being short for mongoloid and just a
by kami8845 14y ago
This is a non-issue.
Look at MongoDB.
If you want to say "You're a retard" in German you'd say "Du bist ein Mongo". Mongo being short for mongoloid and just as `politically incorrect` as retard is in the English speaking world. If anything the name made the product more memorable for me (and I use it almost every day now)
- adgar2 14y agoMongoDB is considered a complete joke by most who've programmed a distributed system. So.... poor example.
- icelancer 14y agoSeems like a perfect name, then.
- GauntletWizard 14y agoFor the first year or so I read about it, I though it was MnogoDB; as in, Mnogo Nukes. Woulda been a much better name.
- lewispollard 14y agoMongo is a horribly offensive word for the same thing in English too - at least in British English. I wonder if the developers knew that?