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Re:The Wyvern Programming Language by anon4 on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:12AM (#8151920)
That sounds like "deaf" and has negative connotations, too. Same with "fun" (you're here to work, not goof off), "private" (you're not allowed to talk about genitalia at the workplace), "do" (a metaphor for sex, nsfw), "unix" (eunuchs), "bsd" (bondage, sadomasochism, domination), "curve" (whore in several languages), "fsck", "mount", "touch", "kill" (very negative connotations here)... and so on. I'm certain that nearly all one-syllable pronouncable words in English have some sort of "bad" meaning, but people are perfectly capable of keeping in mind what context they're used in, so we don't snicker each time we write "private int size;" in a class definition.
Re:The Wyvern Programming Language by JadeNB on Friday August 08, 2014 @07:36AM (#8152321)
> I'm certain that nearly all one-syllable pronouncable words in English have some sort of "bad" meaning

Yes!

(Narrowly edging out 'this', because I don't want to do, uh, that.)

Re:The Wyvern Programming Language by Flow on Friday August 08, 2014 @08:31AM (#8152458)
What dirty associations can you make out of "proc" or even "procedure"?
Re:The Wyvern Programming Language by dagw on Friday August 08, 2014 @08:46AM (#8152499)
proc is basically the Greek proktos as in proctology as in anus. Now we have just made an association to anuses and proctology procedures and I'll let you take from here.
Re:The Wyvern Programming Language by lostcolony on Friday August 08, 2014 @09:44AM (#8152697)
Sorry, I can't reference fsck without thinking of it as a combination of two words.
Re:The Wyvern Programming Language by tormeh on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:52AM (#8151988)
Funniest thing I've read in a while.