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Nah. "Google" is pronounced the same as the English word "Googol", so I do consider it appropriating. Meanwhile, Invidia is a latin word, which as a dead langua
by em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
Nah. "Google" is pronounced the same as the English word "Googol", so I do consider it appropriating. Meanwhile, Invidia is a latin word, which as a dead language, and it is pronounced differently from "Nvidia", so I don't consider that the same as appropriating a living language word.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo ago"invidia" is an Italian word, so it does survive in living languages. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invidia https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invidia "Nvidia" as "officially" pronounced in English is not significantly different from some of those pronunciations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia And the founders seemed to be well aware of the existing usage when they chose the name.