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Is the joke that your username contains fish? For the life of me I can't figure out what the joke is and if its the username bit its a poor joke.


When I made the comment. I was looking at this line:

   For an overview of the features in *fishfish*, see the 
Which I took as the official name of the shell, before I later realized it was some kind of wierd typo. my name is pronounced fish-fish. I was drawing attention to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti . I hate English, you see.


I don't hate English. In fact they got a whole lot right after they branched off. Just removing some of the stupidity from Scandinavian, German, French and other words makes a whole lot of difference (Seriously: Genders for words, who came up with that? ; )

The spelling otoh: Yes, that one is broken.


> (Seriously: Genders for words, who came up with that? ; )

It's for entertainment purposes. Provides harmless amusement to native speakers of languages that have it, especially when English (or Chinese, or whatever underfeatured language) speakers fumble the genders of tables, forks, cars, etc.

More fun than a barrel of monkeys. Also good for poets, makes their work more difficult, thus rarer and better smelling when burnt.


fishfish is not a typo, this is a maintained fork of the original fish shell, and it is called fishfish. Unless I'm mistaken, anyway.


Exactly, fishfish is fish's fork of fish. Though at some point a fork becomes the mainline by default, and I sort of feel that fishfish has already passed that point.




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