Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
by ironmagma on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:53AM
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Don’t forget “libpq”
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Funfact: PQ is short for toilet paper in French
So libpq always cracks me up. But then again there's a theorem prover called Coq (which is indeed pronounced as you imagine, it means rooster) and it's been named by French researchers at INRIA!
libcaca, also french: http://caca.zoy.org/
Ok, let's talk about this... pico, the editor and SI prefix, means "dick" in at least some Spanish-speaking countries... Source of endless nerd jokes.
Not to mention the (un)surprisingly low sales in spanish speaking countries of the car known as the Vauxhall Nova ...
Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020)
by brandmeyer on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:16PM
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As an American, I feel like I have to deliberately mis-pronounce 'coq' the theorem prover like 'coke' the soda.