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Re:Ask HN: Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Un... by jacquesm on Monday October 19, 2009 @09:34AM (#890016)
Frankly no. I just sat here and it suddenly hit me.

Congratulations on being a whole lot smarter than me :) (don't worry about it, you probably share that distinction with a large part of the population of the planet).

And is there any take on this being an oversight or was it on purpose ?

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Re:Ask HN: Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Un... by ianbishop on Monday October 19, 2009 @11:17AM (#890210)
I meant no offense!

But within a week of the new engine being announced (or rather renamed) it was pointed out by TC and other news outlets.

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Re:Ask HN: Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Un... by jacquesm on Monday October 19, 2009 @11:24AM (#890224)
> I meant no offense!

none taken, hence the :)

> But within a week of the new engine being announced (or rather renamed) it was pointed out by TC and other news outlets.

I completely missed that, I was pretty busy with other stuff when bing launched.

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Re:Ask HN: Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Un... by tokenadult on Monday October 19, 2009 @10:07AM (#890070)
An item from a dead HN thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632022

commented on plausible interpretations of "bing" as a Chinese word. Without tone markings, it's hard to know whether joking that it means "ice" makes more sense than joking that it means "sick," and in any event the official Microsoft rendering of "Bing" in Chinese turns the pronunciation into "bi ying," as indicated in the link above.

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Re:Ask HN: Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Un... by access_denied on Monday October 19, 2009 @10:05AM (#890067)
On purpose?! By a company that chooses pink as the color for special edition Zune, to just name one example of demonstrable lack of taste? I don't think they are more subtle than, er, Yahoo or what about Tumblr... need I go on? Maybe in the head of one single advertising guy who wanted to.. but then again, how many advertising people know that GNU even exists? Let alone iterational humour.
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