[erlang-questions] erlang-questions Digest, Vol 360, Issue 5

[Karolis Petrauskas]

Here you go: https://kurvasoft.com/

Karolis

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Roman Galeev <jamhedd@REDACTED> wrote:

> > how offensive this particular word is to people who speak American
> English.
>
> There are offensive words in Russian, and they even form a sublanguage
> named 'mat'. But you can't find something like this http://coonlabs.com/
> <https://mltrk.io/link/http%3A%2F%2Fcoonlabs.com%2F/GEcpm9pL4x4ePNgwJw0H>
> with any of such words, this is simply not possible.
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Onorio Catenacci <Catenacci@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> A few thoughts:
>>
>> 1.) As a native speaker of American English, trust me the word "coon" is
>> extremely offensive.  I'm not trying to be hyperbolic but it's my
>> impression that to African-Americans this word is almost as offensive as
>> the N word is. I'm not a SJW and I'm not politically correct. I simply
>> don't have any good reason to likely offend people when a less offensive
>> term (like "Racoon") is easily available to use.  If you don't speak
>> American English natively, trust me this is not a case of someone being
>> hypersensitive.  It's a very offensive word.
>>
>> 2.) It looks like Valery simply decide to build Rebar3/Hex/Mix etc. with
>> Python.  That's perfectly fine.  I'm not seeing anything much on there
>> other than "we decided to rebuild rebar3 with python" and "we're going to
>> build packages to work with our new build system" but it doesn't look as if
>> they have yet.
>>
>> 3.) I also agree with Fred and others who say that all this discussion on
>> the subtleties of political correctness and freedom of expression will get
>> lost outside of this mailing list.  All this would do is give a black eye
>> to the Erlang community and convince people who don't know any better than
>> some segment of developers who use Erlang are racists.  Fair or not that's
>> what will happen. Of course who ever said life is fair?
>>
>> I wish I had a better grasp of the native language of some folks on this
>> list so I could express how offensive this particular word is to people who
>> speak American English.  Maybe if I said to Valery I were going to build a
>> library named " КГБ" that might give some idea of how loaded with
>> negative meaning the word "Coon" is in English. The fact that lots of
>> Russian folks might find that particular phrase offensive--well they need
>> to stop being so sensitive right?
>>
>> If you want to continue with this library, please simply change the name
>> to "Racoon." This is not about offending or not offending anyone.  Its
>> about giving people the wrong impression by picking a name with a negative
>> meaning in American English. Or if you insist on using "Coon" then use the
>> word in whatever your native language is for "Racoon".
>>
>> I'll put it this way: I wouldn't name a library "Bitch".  Yes, it refers
>> to a female dog.  But it's more commonly used as an offensive way to
>> describe a female that one doesn't like.
>>
>> I also wouldn't name a library "Ass". That word can refer to a donkey but
>> it's so overwhelmingly identified with a pejorative slang term that native
>> speakers wouldn't think "donkey"--they'd think the other thing.
>>
>> --
>> Onorio Catenacci
>>
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>> http://www.google.com/+OnorioCatenacci
>>
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