NIPS Name Change

As an aside, a (German) acquaintance of mine was once harshly told to shut it and kicked from an open source project's IRC channel because he had (by accident) used the German form of "yep" instead of saying "yep" or "yes" - it's "jap". Wondering to this day how someone can be offended by the mere existence of a word in a different language that happens to map to another one in your language - if it just happens to appear, without context. I'm stressing this as the discussion had nothing to do with people or getting out of hand.