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		Blaisorblade0 on April 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Renaming Coq Coq’s name _was_ meant to be offensive to English speakers. And the team does want to avoid names that are offensive in other languages, as EVERYBODY does when choosing international brand names.

enriquto on April 9, 2021 [–]

> avoid names that are offensive in other languages, EVERYBODY does when choosing international brand names.

This is simply not true. There's plenty of commonly used English names that are offensive in other languages.

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