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by smarnach 409 days ago
Similarly, the Rust query will include "trust", "antitrust", "frustration" and a bunch of other words
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A guerilla marketing plan for a new language is to call it a common one word syllable, so that it appears much more prominent than it really is on badly-done popularity contests.

Call it "Go", for example.

(Necessary disclaimer for the irony-impaired: this is a joke and an attempt at being witty.)

Let’s make a language called “A” in that case. (I mean C was fine, so why not one letter?)
Or call it the name of a popular song to appeal to the youngins.

I present to you "Gangam C"

You also wouldn't acronym hijack overload to boost mental presence in gamers LOL
Reminded me about Scunthorpe problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Amusingly, the chart shows Rust's popularity starting from before its release. The rust hype crowd is so exuberant, they began before the language even existed!
Now if we only could disambiguate words based on context. But you'd need a good language model for that, and we don't... wait.