Comment by hagbard_c 2 months ago Karton, Dutch for 'cardboard'. Chosen because it is a tool to handle (virtual) boxes, maybe? 9 comments hagbard_c Reply atomicnumber3 2 months ago No need to contact the Dutch for this one - I assume it's just "carton" with the C replaced with K hagbard_c 2 months ago Ah, but the Dutch can get there without indirection which means they're faster than those label-swapping Anglo- and Francophones. pkaye 2 months ago I would have gone with a creative name like kvm. gerdesj 2 months ago French is not Germanic. It's a Romance language, so closer to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etcEnglish, German and Dutch are Germanic. 1 reply → EasyMark 2 months ago I assumed it was a mild allusion to VirtualBox, which I always call vbox sureglymop 2 months ago Could be German as well. gerdesj 2 months ago English, Dutch and German are all ... Germanic.English is the weird one, except for the others. guappa 2 months ago If a word is the same in italian and in english, 99% of the times it doesn't have german origins.
atomicnumber3 2 months ago No need to contact the Dutch for this one - I assume it's just "carton" with the C replaced with K hagbard_c 2 months ago Ah, but the Dutch can get there without indirection which means they're faster than those label-swapping Anglo- and Francophones. pkaye 2 months ago I would have gone with a creative name like kvm. gerdesj 2 months ago French is not Germanic. It's a Romance language, so closer to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etcEnglish, German and Dutch are Germanic. 1 reply →
hagbard_c 2 months ago Ah, but the Dutch can get there without indirection which means they're faster than those label-swapping Anglo- and Francophones. pkaye 2 months ago I would have gone with a creative name like kvm. gerdesj 2 months ago French is not Germanic. It's a Romance language, so closer to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etcEnglish, German and Dutch are Germanic. 1 reply →
gerdesj 2 months ago French is not Germanic. It's a Romance language, so closer to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etcEnglish, German and Dutch are Germanic. 1 reply →
sureglymop 2 months ago Could be German as well. gerdesj 2 months ago English, Dutch and German are all ... Germanic.English is the weird one, except for the others. guappa 2 months ago If a word is the same in italian and in english, 99% of the times it doesn't have german origins.
gerdesj 2 months ago English, Dutch and German are all ... Germanic.English is the weird one, except for the others. guappa 2 months ago If a word is the same in italian and in english, 99% of the times it doesn't have german origins.
guappa 2 months ago If a word is the same in italian and in english, 99% of the times it doesn't have german origins.
No need to contact the Dutch for this one - I assume it's just "carton" with the C replaced with K
Ah, but the Dutch can get there without indirection which means they're faster than those label-swapping Anglo- and Francophones.
I would have gone with a creative name like kvm.
French is not Germanic. It's a Romance language, so closer to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese etc
English, German and Dutch are Germanic.
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I assumed it was a mild allusion to VirtualBox, which I always call vbox
Could be German as well.
English, Dutch and German are all ... Germanic.
English is the weird one, except for the others.
If a word is the same in italian and in english, 99% of the times it doesn't have german origins.