On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 03:48 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Wednesday 2023-09-20 21:29, Martin Wilck via openSUSE Factory wrote:
I've obviously missed the first round of suggestions, but I would suggest a name for which slow (rolling) motion has positive associations, like "steamroller" or "caterpillar".
Steamroller is a construction device to flatten something with ample force. Especially in video games, it's used to conceptually refer to a practically unstoppable force that nothing shall stand in its way or face devastation and obliteration. So much for positive..
Indeed, I thought "slow but practically unstoppable" was a nice association for this distribution. No offense, but associating "devastation and obliteration" with this term seems somewhat pathological to me, despite "A Fish Called Wanda".
Caterpillar is a manufacturer of steamrollers ;)
Exactly. And a word for a slow-moving (albeit not rolling) animal. Unfortunately I couldn't think of any "slow rolling" things in nature. Whatever, so far these works aren't even eligible for voting, so why argue about this here? Martin