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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by GenericsMotors on Friday October 20, 2017 @07:26AM (#15514898)
> Even minor things like picking a product name had impact.

They get zero points for this.

It pretty much reads as "Retard"DB in Portuguese, Spanish, and IIRC German.

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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by sigzero on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:35AM (#15515610)
Not that it is 100% reliable but I put "mongo" in Google translate for all three of those languages and it comes out "mongo". Unless mongo is "slang" in those languages.
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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by GenericsMotors on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:49AM (#15515716)
It is slang, short for "mongoloide".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mongo

Interesting this isn't the case with English.

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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by zimpenfish on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:59AM (#15515788)
English would be "mong". Probably because we got lazy with our abusive terms in the 70s and 80s.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mong#English (Etymology 3)

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