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?
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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.
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?
> 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.
As for the first: there isn’t a silly trend of naming everything after randomly-chosen German words, so at least it’s fairly original.
It's ultimately a word from a foreign language. At some point it got used by English-speakers and then it spread and got used more and more.
Lots of foreign words get used. Some catch on and some don't. That's just how language evolves. Pajamas is just an example of a foreign word in a late stage of this evolution