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Comment by Argorak | Hacker News Reader

I know the prefix comes from the authors name, but the NSSomething naming scheme was very unlucky already, KZSomething is even worse.

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This is unfortunate for German, but not a big deal for most other-language speakers, I think. I could of course be off, but as an English-speaking American who's likely a bit more knowledgable about WWII than average, the unfortunateness of "NS" has never crossed my mind before and I'd have never even known about the issue with "KZ" if it hadn't been mentioned here.

Anyway, it seems an odd request to make of an apparently Polish person.

Take any unfortunate combination that rings a bell in the us and american people will have the same problem. Something slightly sexual and racy, especially.

Sure.

Upon review, I made it sound like you were suggesting that it should be changed; but you hadn't, and had only pointed out the contextual awkwardness. I apologize.

Apology accepted. I wouldn't go into a lobby war because of that.

What makes it even worse is the name KZPlayground, for me personally stuff like that sends shivers down my spine, though I'm slightly biased (being Austrian, family history, etc.).

kz can thoug also be the TLD/country code for Kazakhstan, there are just a lot of ambiguities in all the human languages and product naming can be a real pain (some car-makers have some experience with especially bad naming :) )

I've been under the impression that Apple asks third parties to use three-letter prefixes (that's the default in Xcode when you start a new project).

Apple would like to keep two-letter prefixes for their own frameworks: CA for Core Animation, SK for SceneKit, etc.

The author should maybe consider renaming the project. The first thing that comes to my (german) mind when I hear KZ is concentration camp.

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