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Knur? Knot?
by Name on Friday 11/May/2007, @08:31
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Especially in polish language. The first two words that I thought about were:
"knur" - meaning "boar", or (colloquially and somewhat offensive) "swine".
"knot" - meaning "something fscked up" ;).
Not too nice associations, I think :P. |
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by Sebastian Kügler on Friday 11/May/2007, @08:47
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It's probably closest to "knot" then.
Knut is an adorable little polarbear that made the news a couple of weeks ago, and since that bugger's got its own wikipedia page, we're tapping into his popularity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_(polar_bear)
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by Name on Friday 11/May/2007, @09:12
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Well, my bad. It's the first time I heard about that bear. But the article you pointed mentioned that the zoo has trademarked "Knut". Won't there be any problems for KDE stemming from this? ;)
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by Sebastian Kügler on Friday 11/May/2007, @09:22
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I'm looking forward to reading articles like "Zoo sues Free Software Project" or "Sue zoos ..."
It must be Friday.
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by Wade Olson on Friday 11/May/2007, @09:34
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"Polarizing Knut: Illegal Use of Imagery Unbearable and Seals Fate"
Triple Pun FTW.
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by eol on Friday 11/May/2007, @11:49
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best comment ever. thumbs up wade.
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by MamiyaOtaru on Friday 11/May/2007, @13:41
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How the heck can one trademark a name? Knut was the name of a king of Denmark and England (anglicized as Canute). It didn't appear with this bear. To what does the trademark apply? Pairings of the name with the image of a bear? I suppose it's like restricting usages of the name McDonald that have to do with food. It would suck to be a resterateur named McDonald or a computer software guy named Mike Rowe ;) (I know)
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by gizz on Friday 11/May/2007, @15:03
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As you mentioned McDonald's...
http://www.papascott.de/archives/2007/04/21/knut-wochen/
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by MamiyaOtaru on Saturday 12/May/2007, @01:53
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Excellent :) And from following links: laffo @ knutwurst, knutella and bärate uhse
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by Alexa on Friday 11/May/2007, @16:17
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Knut is so cute ~ he will always be in my heart. I think it's great they have named this alpha after him... He is incredible cute - And the polarbear lives on the other side of the world than the penguin... But: Does this mean - that KDE is working completely into the other direction of the usual linux-world-philosophy? i am confused.
@_@
Greets from "Knut"-Germany,
Alexa
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by Knut Mork on Monday 14/May/2007, @00:15
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Thank you! But why do you mention polarbears ?
:-)
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Re: Knur? Knot?
by Jean-Alex Silvy on Monday 14/May/2007, @11:44
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Reminds me of my recents german week-end in Rheinland :
1°) Knut everywhere, and clearly too much for me...
2°) Sporgel everywhere, it's a pity there were so much of it & I ate so few, I'm a wreck !
3°) Grönemeyers 12, just catch it & leave the country :)
I think KDE will remain quite German-Styled in meeting locations as in cultural references and I can't see why it should not be good !!
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