El Cabrón!
Ha Ha Ha... Should have expected a fellow Texan to say that one. I love it...
How about El Chupacabra?
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El Capitan vs El Cap
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Ha Ha Ha... Should have expected a fellow Texan to say that one. I love it...
How about El Chupacabra?
Even better. The next verson can be El Pendejo, or La Pendeja to switch genders.
El Cabrón!
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When I heard it first I thought it was a joke. 4 syllables? Not very Jobsian.
When Apple first released Mavericks I had no idea what it was, I assumed it was a place but had no idea where it was. The Yosemite came along and I'm sitting there like what is that? Then obviously I found out. Im Australian so I had never heard of El Capitan but I say OS X El Capitan, it sounds better than OS X El Cap but if your talking about the Apple OS's I might so OS X El Cap but normally i just say "El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks" when referring to Apple OS's, because most Australian people know what your talking about.
El Cap? That makes it sound like a gel cap or something (and means nothing in Spanish). El Capitan is the THE CAPTAIN (in this case named after the mountain in California) and how can that not be a cool name unless you don't like Spanish? If they called it 10.11 Picard all the Star Trek fans would eat it up, for example. Q called Picard "Mon Capitan" (French for my 'My Captain') so that's what I tend to think of when I see El Capitan since Captain is spelled the same in French and Spanish.
I really just picture a bunch of apple guys sitting around at lunch and placing a bet on the most ridiculous name to call OS X 10.11. I then just imagine them cracking up somewhere with beers in hand as apple released the name at the keynote.... That or it was bring your kid to work day at apple and let the kids decide.
I knew of El Capitan and that it was in Yosemite. So should anyone who likes Star Trek
Well, I call it " OS X La Bamba" because everytime I think about it, I can't help but singing "No yo soy marinero, soy capitan, soy capitan, soy capitan"
La Bamba makes me think of the expat bar in Beijing selling cheap booze and crappy nachos.
If Cali gets "The big one" earthquake and submerges half of it, I wonder what they'll call the next OS X release? OS X Tsunami? I like it!
No, because then they wouldn't be calling it what it actually is, especially since it's a historical landmark of Yosemite National Park. Same as how people get flustered when someone calls San Francisco "Frisco". It's a shortened made up name and to many native San Franciscans it's an insult.
May I ask how you got an OS a few years ago that wasn't in existence? Or was that a typo?
It was supposed to be a joke; this thread was created the day the name of The Cap'm was revealed, and I thought the implication that people already had time to nickname/abbreviate it was vaguely humorous.
Didn't any of you guys hear about the freeclimbers who scaled El Capitan earlier in the year? Was all over the news in the UK.
But I don't get why they went Mavericks>Yosemite>El Capitan. Where's the logic?
No I didn't, perhaps I wasn't paying much attention. I have seen Yosemite in the news lately but its mostly due to bear attacks, nothing that I've noticed regarding El Cap.