The company is called Jingling which seems to be a Chinese city, so I highly doubt they named it after some obscure English expression.
(鲮, romanised as Ling, is another water animal known as "mud carp".)
Well, we don't discuss a lot of politics in international teams, that's a taboo topic especially when working with Chinese colleagues. And for Trump we have only one word, that I don't want to repeat here.
I think I heard the word "jingoism" for the first time ever around 5 years ago. It is not a word one hears very often, and it certainly didn't come to mind from "JingOS".
If you often read high-brow political publications you may come across "jingoism" on the daily, but that is obviously not a huge cross-section of the public.
TBH, kind of bizarre how strongly this jingoism thing is being pushed in this thread.
Does Ngram scan social media, TV or (to a lesser extent) newspapers? If not I’m dubious about the utility here.
I agree that is still used, but arguably in very specialized contexts, and has many better and less idiomatic alternatives that make it a poor choice in many publication, helping it become rarer.
I expect a lot of concept names not directly bound to the concept itself to slowly disappear, the same way calling dinnerware "china" won't stand for a lot more generations I think.
It's not that obscure if a nonnative speaker's first reaction is to think "why would anyone want to call a distro by that name"?
It doesn't matter that there is a perfectly reasonable alternative motivation for it ... It's just, you'll never find me wanting to be heard saying "I think you should use jingos!"[1]
Interestingly, it turns out, someone else thought it would be a good brand name too.[2] So you are not alone.
[1]: https://www.bennetyee.org/http_webster.cgi?isindex=jingo&met... [2]: https://buyjingos.com/
My initial allergy does fade over time. That's advertising/normalisation for you.
Patio Cola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingo_(novel)
It's not a word you'd hear every day but it's a word I'd bet on the majority of genuinely literate people to understand.
https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/romeo-and-juliet-97804862755...
You're turning my statement around and perceive it as if I was suggesting Swedish people are not literate. That's not what I'm saying yet you're defending the Swedes.
Not that I’d want to put Pratchett in the literary canon, just making a point about Bokus.
The comment you're referring to didn't say that, or suggest it. So this is one red flag for your "genuine" literacy :)
In hindsight probably a good idea, not a self-fulfilling prophecy you'd want.