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Probably should have come up with a better name. The natural English syllabification of this is 'wog.ram.mers', rather than 'wo.gram.mers'. That's a barrel of w
by Xophmeister 11y ago
Probably should have come up with a better name. The natural English syllabification of this is 'wog.ram.mers', rather than 'wo.gram.mers'. That's a barrel of worms you don't want to open!... Which is a shame, because such an initiative isn't one that should be pulled down because of something so superficial.
EDIT: The natural British English syllabification, where 'wog' is a derogatory racial slur.
- bshimmin 11y agoIn my mind, strangely, it came out as "woeful programmers" - "women" didn't even occur to me. Obviously this name is every bit as bad as the execrable "brogrammers".
- userbinator 11y agoIf they wanted to find a female equivalent to "brogrammer", "sisgrammer" would be closer.
- venomsnake 11y agoIsn't brogrammer derogatory?
- bshimmin 11y agoI'm sure it is on HN. There are probably places where they talk about ninjas and rockstars where it might not (yet) be, I'm not sure.
- qntmfred 11y agoThe intended pronunciation came naturally for me. I don't think it's an issue.