On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 1:18 PM Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
wrote:

> João Távora [2022-09-30 12:38 +0100] wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 12:33 PM Basil L. Contovounesios <
> contovob@tcd.ie> wrote:
> >
> >  > I can only agree.  Especially because there are a number of packages
> >  > starting with "el...", which makes misreading the package name as
> >  > "elgot" very easy (which is still how I pronounce the package when
> >  > speaking to this day).
> >
> >  If we just changed the default language of Emacs to Greek, "Eglot" would
> >  automatically become a lot more palatable ;).  Maybe for Emacs 30 🤞.
> >
> > Google translate doesn't get the pun,
>
> No pun; the Greek root glot is equivalent to Latin lingua (and English
> tongue), so to me "Eglot" isn't jarring at all and is sufficiently
> descriptive.
>

Doh, of course. I'm a bit embarassed, I forgot portuguese has so many words
of Greek origin (glote means throat, for example).

João