It's harmless fun, and also a taste of the cultural hegemony the non-anglosaxon world get (I realize the irony of saying that as a french).
I’m pretty allergic to woke culture, and I still thought this is just better marketing.
People will keep calling it Coq, and newcomers will call it Rocq. There’s no deadnaming or stigma involved.
I share your sadness, the difference in orthography makes it already very clear it's a different word.
Or when you try to debug something while a little tired, and mindlessly google 'string' without any other search term, only to be surprised at only having underwear-related results.
Or "covid", but only because I'm too stubborn to accept to say "La covid".
I meant the Logitech Unify one.
They were thinking of something else.
The nickname is a play on my family name ("Monchablon"), that was wrongly written on the first draft of my work contract (as "Mablochon"), which only needed a bit of a chicken-obsessed CTO to become "Mablopoule".
One handy habit I got from that CTO is to keep a folder of images of poultry to use as test images when coding/debugging an image-related form.
Unfortunately I imagine they're difficult to keep in urban environments; maybe some HN entrepreneurial type ought to start a "Chickens As A Service" site so those who don't have the facilities to keep poultry at home could rent them by the hour?
*en frappant à la porte d'une fête à 3h00*
— « Bonsoir, c'est la police ; vos voisins nous ont appelés ... »
— « Eh bien, allez à eux alors. Ici, on a commandé des poules, pas des flics »And yes, it's pronounced exactly like you think.
That was a glorious month or two until we moved on to the next module.
I seem to remember that the foc (it's a sail) is named after the phoque (the seal). And the foc is the sail that takes the wind from behind. I'll let you fill in the details.