WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
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Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#2There needs to be a "No results found" type result. Currently it's impossible to tell the difference between no result and an empty result.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#3Anyone find any real-world matches? I was able to get positives by typing in foreign curses directly, but couldn't find any startups with foreign curses in their name.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#4Anyone find any real-world matches? I was able to get positives by typing in foreign curses directly, but couldn't find any startups with foreign curses in their name.
"airbnb" results in
“ayr”
Arabic: penis
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#5I think this should also do a phoneme based comparison, for example the photo sharing website Flickr is pronounced like this word (as a slang word it is well known) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flikker
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#6FYI this doesn't check for words that sound like swear words. For example, it'll detect Fuck but not Fack.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#7Anyone find any real-world matches? I was able to get positives by typing in foreign curses directly, but couldn't find any startups with foreign curses in their name.
Not a startup, but yesterday I was impressed with the font Skolar, which name I mistakenly remembered as Skola, and apparently it's considered close enough to "Chola", which is Hindi for clitoris.
The "level of worriness" does go down (pun intended) when I type the font's correct name.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#8FYI this doesn't check for words that sound like swear words. For example, it'll detect Fuck but not Fack.
With the input box I suspect they want the database to be crowdsourced. I wonder if they vet the input, if we all try hard enough might we get hackernews into the swear list?
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#9Is a start. How about death and failure type words? Muerta doesn't elicit any warning. And 'Nova' is famous for its Spanish meaning (apocryphal?) - words like that might be hard to catch.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#10Italian one needs work. It did not have 'minchia' in it, which is no longer even all that regional, AFAIK. Didn't have 'mona' either, although that could be foregiven as it's dialect in the Veneto.