On Monday 28 January 2008 21:09:59 seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 23:05 +0200, Riku Seppälä wrote: > > I just read from the Fedora weekly news that the codename for Fedora 9 > > is Sulphur. > > Sulphur is "rikki" in Finnish. Rikki also means "broken" in Finnish. :) > > Well it's not really that funny but just thought I'd mention it. > > yah, we've been through this before, it seems to be linguistically > impossible to find any single word in any language which does not sound > like or translate to some sort of pejorative in some other language. > > so we persevere :) FWIW fedor (that sounds almost like fedora) in Portuguese means "really bad smell" so we don't even need to wait for release names. :-) Now it is possible to associate a bad smell to all the previous codenames so we are in the game again with Sulfur. ;-) > -sv -- José Abílio -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
