You will want to reconsider the name if you plan to have a presence in Australia or New Zealand. "Abo" is an ethnic slur similar in offensiveness to the N-word.
You will want to reconsider the name if you plan to have a presence in Australia or New Zealand. "Abo" is an ethnic slur similar in offensiveness to the N-word.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to share this important feedback. As the repository owner, I want to clarify that "abogen" is simply a shortened form of "audiobook generator," which is what this project does.
I completely understand your concern, and I'm grateful that you pointed this out. It's clear that your comment comes from a place of wanting to help, and I really value community members like you who look out for potential issues.
The name was chosen purely based on the technical functionality (audiobook generation), and I had no awareness of the unfortunate similarity you've mentioned. As English is not my native language, I sometimes miss these cultural nuances that native speakers would naturally catch. I appreciate your understanding that this was entirely unintentional.
Thank you again for the thoughtful heads-up
Don't worry. Australia will probably ban it for some reason anyway. Better to be free.
Btw, Don't look into the name of a famous python formatter or you might be offended.
"Abo" carries the same cultural impact as "Paki" in the UK, and isn't a word in its own right, let alone a very commonly used one. Completely different kettle of fish. Seeing as you want to derail this into some free speech rant - it's just distasteful. You really think anybody who wants legislative control over freedom of speech in Australia gives a damn about Aboriginals getting offended?
Intent matters and your phrasing "Seeing as you want to derail this into some free speech rant" is fundamentally offensive to me. Censor yourself.
Go fight for chat control under the guise of caring about others. It's been really successful so far. "Free speech rant"...
Everyone has a gimmick these days. If abos are that sensitive, let them not have access to solutions—no need to worry about them.
The project presumably is a portmanteau of "audio book generator".
I agree that the project need not be renamed to remove the single syllable that may be an obscure slur, especially since every syllable may be an obscure slur in some language and you can't expect somebody to learn them all just to avoid them.
But there was no need to use that syllable as a slur.
Having zero cultural sensitivity like this is incredibly embarrassing