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Introducing Our New Name

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212 points luafox | 4 comments | 13 Oct 24 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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froggerexpert ◴[14 Oct 24 01:35 UTC] No.41833387[source]▶
Great project, which has sorely been in need of a better name.

"Luanti" works. Unique, pronounceable, alludes to Lua ties.

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1. thaumasiotes ◴[14 Oct 24 10:55 UTC] No.41836307[source]▶
The "n" obscures the notional reference to "lua". "Lua" is two syllables, but "luan" is just one. The name makes me think 乱, not an element you'd want to include in the name of most projects.
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2. yellow_lead ◴[14 Oct 24 11:50 UTC] No.41836641[source]▶
For non-chinese speakers 乱/亂 is pronounced luan4 in Chinese and means disordered.
3. iand ◴[14 Oct 24 14:12 UTC] No.41837723[source]▶
Lu-anti seems like two syllables to me
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4. opan ◴[22 Oct 24 03:49 UTC] No.41911017[source]▶
Anti is two syllables, isn't it?