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		redcap on Sept 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name While I don't know about Chinese, in Japanese 大 means 'large' and 便 can be read as 'faeces'. So perhaps the name for Debian in Chinese is actually "big poo".

dongsheng on Sept 14, 2011 | [–]

Yep, just a joke people made to laugh at the pronunciation of Debian is the same as "big poo" in chinese, but we love Debian of course ;)

riobard on Sept 14, 2011 | [–]

Bingo!

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