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Comment by nehal3m | Hacker News Reader

I am genuinely not trying to be a vulgar dingus but in my native language (Dutch) this is the verb for orally pleasuring women.

I don’t know how that figures into your decision to name it this but at least now you’re aware.

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Somebody could compile the (probably extremely short, if not nil) list of pronounceable sequences of phonemes, that are not vulgar, sexist, demeaning, insulting, "hurtful", or otherwise objectionable in any language.

In any language? I suspect that approaches the null set.

...And then copyright them all. Muhahaha.

I was contemplating adding "to at least one person" at the end of that sentence, but then it definitely would be the null set.

If someone did that and then domain-squat all of them, then the rest of us would be forced to choose hilarious names for our software.

Checking urban dictionary is a good start.

In this case, it’s not a great source. There are two, low-ranking Dutch definitions but they’re very direct or vulgar.

I was not, as I am a english speaker with no knowledge of Dutch. I find it a funny coincidence, but if I change the name bef now it'll mess with my muscle memory.

Fair enough, guess it’s not that big a deal. Cheers for making it though!

Downvote me for this, but given the context.. muscle memory?

haha! Everything in the source code is prefixed with bef_ to avoid any possible symbol collisions when linking, so it'd be a pain to unlearn prefixing it.

Do you happen to know its etymology?

Your guess is as good as mine. A quick search proved inconclusive, there’s a few explanations but they seem anecdotal at best. Most point to old uses of the word bef the same way we use “muts” (knitted cap) as a metaphor for female genitalia today.

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