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PIK is a recursive TLA for 'PIK Image Kompression', and ♠ will be the related logo (spades is 'pik' in German). If the project takes off, it may be a good idea to consult experts like with did with the "bro" problem of brotli. In any case, we will not change the name right now -- this project is still in the margin and we have more important things to work on.
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You can add Norwegian to that list.
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@jyrkialakuijala There's a tiny difference in Danish as the k
is a little bit more pronounced than a c
- but it's almost inaudible. But we don't confuse the two as "pic" only comes up when people are speaking English. So in a Danish conversation we'd normally never use the word "pic" or "picture" as we obviously have our own words for that
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@magicgoose Come on, this isn't rocket science. Sure it's theoretically possible that the human language might evolve in the future so that "Google" actually means "pedophile", but I think it's safe to say that it's not an issue today, so there's no reason to make it one. "pik" literally means "dick" in a lot of Germanic languages already today. If it's too hard to see the problem, try to instead to reverse the problem: Would Google want a public repo under their GitHub org called for instance "fuck"? Probably not, but this is how a lot of people view the name of this project.
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Added this to alex. Currently fails on http://wordsafety.com/, which is a good site for testing if a random name is offensive somewhere else.
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"Working as intended" :)
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It's not a good name in Brazil too.
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@watson, do they pronounce it the same way as pic?
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Actually a lot of words would have surprise translations. Especially because languages evolve and add new words all the time.
The only safe choice is to make the name completely out of emojis, or something of that sort — which is guaranteed to never become a word in a language. And this will make it really tough to search on the web, etc. Are you sure it is worth it?
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@watson there's no such thing as "the human language". There are many.
It would indeed be very easy if there was only one language, but the world is not like that.
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Related Issues (20)
- Build with VS is completely broken HOT 7
- PIK means COCK in Danish and Dutch HOT 1
- compilation with gcc 6.3 on cpu without avx2 /sse4.2 HOT 8
- Status of bitstream HOT 1
- compilation issue with MSYS2 under Windows 10 HOT 18
- I don't know how to compiled version 16102018? HOT 3
- compilation issue with mingw-gcc900-20190108 under Windows 10 {PIK(ver. 10012019)} HOT 1
- Add an .editorconfig file to the pik repo HOT 1
- Daily build? HOT 1
- Plugin for Irfanview/Xnview? HOT 2
- Python binding HOT 1
- ease comparison with other formats HOT 4
- Allow SIMD usage outside of pik namespace HOT 11
- memory order argument to atomic operation is invalid HOT 1
- duplicate symbol when build static lib
- Questions regarding Browser support HOT 1
- State of the art entropy coding HOT 1
- Don't let Google hurt mankind
- Rdv shit
- The creation of custom providers could be exemplified in more detail. This should also be possible in independent packages that make use of cocoda-sdk:
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