Mr schrieb:
> 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 don't judge a book by its cover, nor in this case by its title. But this will
> drive away so many people to whom I have talked about this software.

No matter what name you choose, you always get this sort of thing for 
*some* languages. It's nearly inevitable, and even professional "name 
inventors", whose job it is to invent names for cars and other products, 
suffer from it. For instance they name a car "Nova", though in some 
language it happens to mean "doesn't go".

And besides, I always had the impression that France is one of the 
countries where POV-Ray is most popular.

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