On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 01:08:56PM +0200, Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Apr 20, 12 11:49:57 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Friday 13 April 2012 17:18:30 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
In the meeting we had we decided: - to delay the final decision with max one week - but work with the assumption we're going university - the theme would be "*bootstrapping awesome*",
I got some puzzled looks when I tried to discuss this theme in the documentation team. Awesome is an adjective and should be followed by a noun.
Variants that would make more sense to me: *bootstrapping awe* *awesome bootstrapping* *bootstrapping, awesome!* *bootstrapping - awesome!*
because - we always bootstrap awesome things in openSUSE - we bootstrap the first gentoo summit - we bootstrap the first community-led LinuxExpo - SUSE Labs is all about weird words like 'bootstrapping', 'chrooting'
Intended weirdness is great, but somehow it did not work here. Any native speakers to comment on this?
Not a native english speaker, but: "In English, you can verb anything." Similarly, you can turn adjectives and adverbs and verbs into nouns if you brute force them enough. Like "stop on red" or "epic fail". The closest 'proper english' the primary meaning would be 'bootstrapping awesomeness', 'bootstrapping awesome things'. The secondary would be '****** awesome', the 'bootstrapping' serving as a stand-in for a more profane expletive and awesome being an adverb. It's a clever little tagline, although I can see how in Europe, from primarily non-native English speakers it could result in a lot of puzzled looks. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org