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The rationale is interesting. I'm glad they kept the logo as it's recycling ♻️

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[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The name is long and can be very hard to pronounce in many languages.

Who the fuck translates names? This should be a borrow word at max. Like, I would say postmarket oh es or postmarket os' (soft s), latter maybe more casually. I would NOT say "The after market operating system" in my language. If it's implying some groups are incapable of pronouncing English in any coherent way, that's just racist the way I see it.

New proposed name:

Programs, Routines and Symbolic Languages That Control/Dictate the Functioning of Physical Equipment Directly Involved in Performing an Industrial, Technological or Military Function; Designed for Controlling the Allocation and the Use Of Various Resources of Such Physical Equipment to Tasks and Remote Human Users; to be Used with Including But Not Limited to Equipment Originally Manufactured for the Purpose of Being a Portable, Wireless Telephone, Which Changes Radio Connections Seamlessly During Travel from One Radio Reception Cell to Another Without Losing the Party-To-Party Call Connection; Almost Exclusively Subsequent to the Term of Sale of Said Equipment.

One just has to translate the whole thing and it's fine, no way to mispronounce.

[-] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Many languages do not have the same set of sounds as English - a stereotypical example being Japanese, which merges L and R - and so words that use those sounds are difficult to pronounce

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

I still understand "postmalketos".

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