On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 22:02 +0000, José Matos wrote: > 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. :-) We've known that one for a long time. It may have even been you who mentioned it. I gave up caring about various interpretations in all languages a long time ago. Hell, if a name like "blows chunks with gusto" happened for our F13 release, that'd be fine. -sv -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
