GNU bug report logs - #43887
28.0.50; in HELLO: Javanese (Jawa) System.out.println("Sugeng siang!");

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43887 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, bugs <at> gnu.support, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#43887: 28.0.50; in HELLO: Javanese (Jawa) System.out.println("Sugeng siang!");
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:12:46 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Up until now, each joke that we discussed got removed.  So it sounds
> like it's really binary, and in one direction: remove them all.

It might be that all the jokes that have been discussed have been bad,
and that's why they've been discussed.

I think the Java joke is kinda funny, but it's a name-based joke, which
means that the everybody else finds the joke surprising and funny, but a
Javanese person will have heard it a gazillion times before, so it
becomes depressing.  (Anybody with a "funny name" will have heard every
variation of the joke from any number of people.)

So I'd rather remove it.

And that's not a binary vote for "remove all jokes".

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