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Re:Renaming Coq by thefz on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:43PM (#26742871)
On the other hand I am extremely tired of the US' continuous disregard of the existence of other cultures and languages. English might be the lingua franca but the US one is not the "cultura franca" of the whole world. I live in a place/culture where hearing Coq makes me think of the french word for male chicken and only marginally of an English swear word, and I am growing more and more exhausted with this kind of juvenile, sterile thinking.
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Re:Renaming Coq by boobsbr on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:26AM (#26748014)
There's a sporting goods brand called Le Coq Sportif.

There are people with the surname Le Coq.

This Anglo-centrism bothers me as well, because we can find words in English that sound dirty in other languages.

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Re:Renaming Coq by kuroguro on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:30AM (#26748032)
There's also Dick's sporting goods in the US :)
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