Comment by jrockway
3 years ago
This hasn't seemed to help or hurt the popularity of other languages. You've got hot beverages, single letters, snakes, gemstones, two letter verbs, oxidized steel, languages where two thirds of the name are symbols, etc. It doesn't seem to matter. It appears that society, and search engines, are well-equipped to deal with the concept of homonyms.
All of the things you mentioned are not languages themselves. If you google "catala language" (try it! seriously) you're going to get results for the natural language, not this one. It's just an unneeded roadblock that they placed on themselves.
I don't think I've ever typed the words "Java language", "C language", "Go language", etc. except in this comment.
They're even languages named: basic, pascal, java, rust, go, zig, dart, eifel, camel, python, ruby, julia, scheme, racket, joy, mad, coq, lean, ...