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

[Alin Popa]

I guess that this guy needs to change his name to Josh Racoon now:
http://coonlabs.com/about/team/josh-coon/

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Karolis Petrauskas <k.petrauskas@REDACTED>
wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> http://onor.io
>>> http://www.google.com/+OnorioCatenacci
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
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>>      Roman Galeev,
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