People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble".
Large numbers of people, I suspect.
Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
People are going to be put off by a by what looks like a portmanteau of "Paki" and some word ending in "ble".
Large numbers of people, I suspect.
Gee, let's make up a venture name by adding a common suffix to an ethnic slur!
in case you're curious:
The name we selected was "Packable" = packaging + enable/capable/etc.
But the domain was already taken. We searched for alterations of that until we landed on pakible.com being available.
Good luck, though! Whatever bumps you hit, you will sort out along the way.
One good thing is that the name's phonology doesn't have the issue; just the spelling. Phonetically, it's just "packable".
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Paki
Starting with the very first sentence under "Usage notes".
In summary, a strict prefix of some place name or nationality is not automatically a harmless contraction. For instance, "Jap" is not a word which has exactly the same nuance as "person of Japanese descent".
When the Pakistan cricket team tours down here in Australia, they're colloquially referred to as "the Pakis", but that's because we colloquialise EVERYTHING, and has nothing to do with slurring anybody.
He doesn't mention the use of the word Paki by neo-nazi far-right racists.
Edit: in the UK it's almost always a slur. I can see how in other places it's just an abbreviation.