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by sondr3 3253 days ago
I'm just gonna start naming my projects by rolling my face on my keyboard, that way I won't have to be afraid of naming it something offensive in another language.

/s

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A naming pattern that I used for some time was to open the Wikipedia article of the thing that my program is about, and look in the sidebar for nice-sounding names for it in another language. It often ended up being something Scandinavian. For example, KDE's jigsaw puzzle game is called Palapeli (Finnish for "jigsaw puzzle") for this reason.
... freak wormholes in space-time continuum permitting, of course...

http://www.mostly-harmless.de/crllstlk.htm