Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering

Re:Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering by Xophmeister on Friday June 19, 2015 @09:23AM (#9744481)

Probably should have come up with a better name. The natural English syllabification of this is 'wog.ram.mers', rather than 'wo.gram.mers'. That's a barrel of worms you don't want to open!... Which is a shame, because such an initiative isn't one that should be pulled down because of something so superficial.

EDIT: The natural British English syllabification, where 'wog' is a derogatory racial slur.

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Re:Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering by bshimmin on Friday June 19, 2015 @09:33AM (#9744549)

In my mind, strangely, it came out as "woeful programmers" - "women" didn't even occur to me.

Obviously this name is every bit as bad as the execrable "brogrammers".

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Re:Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering by userbinator on Friday June 19, 2015 @09:38AM (#9744590)

If they wanted to find a female equivalent to "brogrammer", "sisgrammer" would be closer.

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Re:Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering by venomsnake on Friday June 19, 2015 @09:47AM (#9744659)

Isn't brogrammer derogatory?

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Re:Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering by bshimmin on Friday June 19, 2015 @10:01AM (#9744773)

I'm sure it is on HN. There are probably places where they talk about ninjas and rockstars where it might not (yet) be, I'm not sure.

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Re:Meet the wogrammers – women in engineering by qntmfred on Friday June 19, 2015 @09:33AM (#9744553)

The intended pronunciation came naturally for me. I don't think it's an issue.

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