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Nothing to do with the tech, but I love your name! I'm just a tourist in Puerto Rico but I've been a number of times and it always warms my heart to hear the Coqui frogs at night. I even play the recordings at home sometimes if I'm having trouble falling asleep.

For anyone that hasn't heard of Coqui frogs before, they are pretty cool animals. Little guys, but a single one can be surprisingly loud and throw its voice pretty effectively. AFAIK they're only really found in Puerto Rico - apparently they can survive in other warm climates but will not sing? Maybe that's an urban legend though.

Anyway I know the sound is a little contentious (some hotels get cats to cut down on guest complaints about the Coqui) but I'd recommend checking it out: https://musicofnature.com/coqui-magic-nightscapes/

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Oh, god. I took a vacation to Hawaii a few years ago. The damn Coqui frogs would never shut up. You lost sleep, because you couldn’t shut them out. People have died because they ran off the road while driving, due to lack of sleep caused by Coqui frogs.

Please kill all the Coqui frogs in the world. Or, at least imprison them all on an island that has no human habitation.

Sure, it’s cute in small quantities, but if that’s your soundtrack 24x7 at 70-80 decibels or more, non-stop, you’d probably want to commit suicide just to get out of there. That’s the kind of place that Coqui frogs drive you to.

I live in Adjuntas and no amount of cats would eat this many frogs - fortunately!

They tend to quiet down during dry spells, so our rain last week has made things sound much nicer.

Unfortunately, it is a bad name because, right or wrong, it will be easily mispronounced. Cocky AI? Who wants that?

Kind of an Americentric perspective and also doesn't give people the benefit of the doubt. I'm an American who only speaks English but I think it's an awesome and interesting name compared to most of the lame product names out there.

I agree with you but also Puerto Rico is technically in the US. I think anyone that has vacationed there will recognize the word (especially with the frog logo), since they are pretty hard to miss and there is a ton of Coqui memorabilia sold at the touristy shops. Puerto Rico is a super common vacation spot for those on the East coast, so unless I'm totally overrating the memorability of these frogs I'd guess plenty of non-Spanish speaking Americans will know how to pronounce.

The computing industry could get less sensitive and accept that other languages than English exist.

I agree, but also it's an onomatopoeia, the sound the frogs make actually is "Co-Kee". IIRC the indigenous people in Puerto Rico are the ones that named them a long time ago, but the spelling might have been influenced by the Spanish. Point being that you definitely do not need to speak a non-English language to know how to say the word, you could also just have visited Puerto Rico.

It will definitely be mispronounced if they misspell it without the accent (Coquí).

I understand they don't want non-ascii in the GitHub project name that turns into a directory name, but the one-line description contains an emoji so I would have thought they could have allowed themselves a Latin-1 character there, for the benefit of people who know some Spanish but hadn't heard of the frogs.

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