Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-conference (99 mails)

[Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Any puzzled look can come to the conf and see what this theme stands for :)
+1 for "bootstrapping awesome" and its ambiguous interpretation
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