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4 Sep 2024 07:17:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: renaming POV-Ray :-)  
From: UncleHoot
Date: 26 Mar 2010 13:48:41
Message: <4bacf379$1@news.povray.org>
"Mr" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.4bace7636188c27867d76f690@news.povray.org...
> Now, as the title already suggests and the newsgroup in which it stands. 
> This is
> not a topic to be taken too seriously so don't kill me please for noticing 
> what
> probably other people before me already told a thousand times... Here it 
> is:
> I'm French. Well that's not actually all of it :-)!
> In French, POV-Ray as a name sounds... how could I call it... really, 
> really
> cheap! it's actually pretty close to if it was called "POO-Ray" for 
> english
> speakers.

I thought it was more like "Poor Ray" ("Pauvre Ray") or perhaps moreso "Po' 
Ray", but I'm not a native French speaker.


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