←back to thread

681 points NetOpWibby | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.414s | source

Hey everyone,

About a year ago I embarked on creating a color scheme for a project and I loved it so much I began using it for everything. I decided to make an official repo for it to share with the world.

Anyhoo, hope y'all enjoy it.

Show context
xanderlewis ◴[] No.43073231[source]
Is there any reason to use the word uchu? It seems like almost everything (colour schemes, AI models, startups, tools, apps, ...) is named using a single randomly-selected Japanese word these days. But... why?
replies(16): >>43073264 #>>43073269 #>>43073299 #>>43073314 #>>43073328 #>>43073329 #>>43073340 #>>43073484 #>>43073758 #>>43073814 #>>43073848 #>>43075627 #>>43077206 #>>43079830 #>>43083979 #>>43101560 #
freeopinion ◴[] No.43073848[source]
Does it bother you to have a product name like Galaxy or Forester?

It seems very odd to me that somebody would complain about single-word product names. Or are you complaining about the origin language? Or are you just jealous that somebody is using a two-syllable word instead of something like Navigator? Or perhaps you are peeved it isn't a single-syllable name like Chrome. Is a word like Ubuntu ok if it isn't Japanese? Or do you mean that words like Twitter and Yahoo should be phased out and everything should just be a single letter like X?

replies(3): >>43075167 #>>43076952 #>>43102361 #
xanderlewis ◴[] No.43076952[source]
I'm not as bothered by it as you seem to think; I was more just pointing out that the trend of naming everything after random Japanese words is a bit stale — especially if there's no relation to Japan and you don't speak Japanese.

> Or do you mean that words like Twitter and Yahoo should be phased out and everything should just be a single letter like X?

Yes. Apart from my children, who will be named things like X Æ A-Xii.

replies(2): >>43081496 #>>43082114 #
tokioyoyo ◴[] No.43082114[source]
That’s basically how words are borrowed from one language and brought into another.
replies(1): >>43082218 #
1. xanderlewis ◴[] No.43082218[source]
I don’t think it is. It’s not random. Words are borrowed because they’re useful and fill in some gap or serve some new purpose.
replies(1): >>43160506 #
2. Cthulhu_ ◴[] No.43160506[source]
Or because they differentiate you from others. English is full of that; there's "cow" for the commoners (from Germanic) vs "beef" for the rich (from French). Or thee/thous for commoners vs you (from French 'vous') for the rich. I suppose the new purpose in those cases were to differentiate from the lower classes.