From: Tad Murphy [mailto:murphyt@cybertad.com] Sent: 16. oktober 1999 10:06 To: Zope List Subject: Re: [Zope] The name ZOPE (was RE: [Zope] Linux.com community ad)
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The name is easier to distinguish for Americans, I think, who pronounce the letter "Z" differently from the character "S". I'm pretty sure Brits don't do this, but I could be wrong. Nevertheless, the verbal resemblance between "Zope" and "soap" is still pretty high.
This is such a lame argument. No matter how you pronounce Zope the fact remains it is still _spelled_ Z-O-P-E.
As the guy who wrote this "lame argument", let me point out that if you'd read the whole piece, you'd have seen that I wasn't trying to make an argument at all, for or agains tanything. It's just a statement of fact. However, think about this. If you did not know of the name beforehand, and somebody told you (verbally) about Zope, what would you do? Would you go on the net and look for a www.zope.com? Would you try to find www.soap.com? www.zoap.com? Or would you respond, "Hmm. How do you spell that?"
Tad Murphy "cybertad" http://www.zope.org/Members/cybertad/
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