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by Blaisorblade0 1895 days ago
Coq’s name _was_ meant to be offensive to English speakers. And the team does want to avoid names that are offensive in other languages, as EVERYBODY does when choosing international brand names.
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> avoid names that are offensive in other languages, EVERYBODY does when choosing international brand names.

This is simply not true. There's plenty of commonly used English names that are offensive in other languages.