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So, for someone unversed in North Korea, what does this mean exactly? The entire country uses this distro exclusively? Or just by government workers? There's g
by apetresc 12y ago
So, for someone unversed in North Korea, what does this mean exactly? The entire country uses this distro exclusively? Or just by government workers?
There's going to be an entire generation out there who've only ever used Linux?
- slipstream- 12y agoWill Scott's talk (and this blogpost) says that nobody really uses Red Star OS in DPRK.
- wtracy 12y agoAre they all on Windows?
- slipstream- 12y agoYes. Windows XP mostly, Windows 7 otherwise.
- steveklabnik 12y agoI'm not particularly familiar with how many people use Red Star OS, but as a small point to help you evaluate advice you may get, those who _are_ versed on "North Korea" call it "the DPRK."
- apetresc 12y agoOh no! I've been listening to people calling it the DPRK instead this whole time! ;)
- steveklabnik 12y agoAh! I read your comment a few times before I even saw the transposition. Yes, I just meant the official name of the country as opposed to the slang some Americans use.
- ceejayoz 12y ago"slang some Americans use"? C'mon. "Corée du Nord" and "Corea del Norte" each have millions of search results (in each case, about 10x as many as the formal name). The BBC says "North Korea".
- steveklabnik 12y agoI try to speak to only what I know, I don't know French.
- ceejayoz 12y agoWhy assert the term is American-only slang, then?
- steveklabnik 12y agoI didn't say that, I just said that Americans use it. Anyway, this isn't particularly interesting.
- ceejayoz 12y agoSurely someone versed on North Korea and interested in sharing their knowledge with the general public in somewhere like the US would use the term "North Korea" in order to be understood?
- steveklabnik 12y agoSometimes, but if that's a concern, they'll often use it the first time, mention the actual name is the DPRK, and then go from there. Calling someone by their chosen name is one of the most human things you can do. Dale Carnegie and all that. The United State's dehumanization of the citizens of the DRPK begins with calling them by the name we prefer rather than the name they've chosen for themselves.
- ceejayoz 12y agoMeh. We call the Russian Federation "Russia", the French Republic "France", the Kingdom of Morocco "Morocco", and the "Republic of Korea" South Korea. It's hardly unique, and no one else seems to mind.
- _delirium 12y agoEh, I don't think it needs that much over-explanation. We also commonly call the ROK "South Korea", and the ROC "Taiwan". They're both allies, but we still typically don't use their actual names in anything but formal settings. Going back to the Cold War, we used geographical terms for both East Germany and West Germany, which weren't in either of their names. I don't think this was out of a desire to dehumanize Germans, but rather because referring to a divided country as if it were not divided, using their official names "Federal Republic of Germany" and "German Democratic Republic" (which both claimed to be The Real Germany), is unwieldy bureaucratese. (It's also not U.S.- or English-specific; you do the same thing in all these cases in Danish. Except for formal documents, it's Nordkorea and Sydkorea, not Den Demokratiske Folkerepublik Korea / DDFK or Republikken Korea / RK.)
- steveklabnik 12y agoWe don't have imperialist intentions with any of those countries, nor do we consider them enemies. The ROK and the DRPK are both shorter than North/South Korea. Anyway, words are hard.
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