> Yet this is all very English-centric. I've often wondered whether foreign users ever get annoyed with some of our names that happen to acronym to something unfortunate in their native language. Do they just have to live with it, or does it never happen?
Well we have to live with it, and funny things happen. In Turkish, which is my mother tongue, the English word Scheme sounds very similar to "sikim", which is a very vulgar way to say "my dick". About five years ago having lunch with colleagues (programmers), chattering about programming languages, when I said I liked Scheme, I had some weird looks :) Some more on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7421315
Well we have to live with it, and funny things happen. In Turkish, which is my mother tongue, the English word Scheme sounds very similar to "sikim", which is a very vulgar way to say "my dick". About five years ago having lunch with colleagues (programmers), chattering about programming languages, when I said I liked Scheme, I had some weird looks :) Some more on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7421315