So, as a bilingual person, you very often borrow terms from one language into the other. Examples include how Swedish developers will say "libbet" for "the library", but crucially, only for software libraries.

The very reason we bilingualists borrow words so often is that we feel the non-native word is a narrower metaphor for what we're trying to say.

This happens for pretty much any IT-related verb, I say "Jag pushar branchen till ditt repo" where neither push, branch nor repo are actual Swedish words. ("I push the branch to your repository".)

Why is this a problem, and why do I bother telling you about it? It surely is a natural phenomenon for any bilingualist, and not anything new or unheard of.

It's a problem because of the word "pull". See, Swedish has a particular suffix for verbs in present tense. It's "-a". This, applied to "pull", yields "pulla".

The word "pulla" already exists, which is usually not an issue, were it not for what the word means: "pulla" is colloquial Swedish for "female masturbation", or "fingering oneself".

So, to me, the following conversation I had with a fellow Swedish coworker the other day makes total sense (and you can probably guess what it means):

me: okej, najs me: även om du pullat? coworker: pullade för ~5min sen

I ask if he has pulled the latest changes, he says he pulled me five minutes ago. Nothing odd about that. Except that this, interpreted by an average Swedish person, reads:

me: okay, nice me: even if you fingered yourself? coworker: I fingered myself about five minutes ago

You can see how this can get pretty awkward when around people who have no idea about these matters, as is not uncommon.

So please, dear reader, I call upon you to change this name to something more bilingually friendly. Something neutral.