Missing Zune which means Penis in Quebec.
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
#122Hey guys, I made this last week as a two-evening side project. Happy to see it posted here, thanks randall! I know the word lists aren't complete. This was the best I could do given the time constraint, the fact that I don't actually speak 19 languages... And also, after two evenings of googling dirty words, I started feeling like I'm about to acquire Tourette's in some unknown language ;) I'll update the database wi…
Searched several spanish words, nothing was found. I guess no support for spanish yet?
One detail to consider about Spanish is that each country has it local variation, so there are some words that are totally safe in some countries but have a totally different unwanted meaning in others. For example "coger" means "pick" in Span and "fuck" in Argentina.
(If you say it in Argentina with a Spanish accent the you will not get into troubles, but the people will give a subtle weird look and someone will explain the local meaning later.)
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#123I'd be really interested in knowing how do they do the phonetic matching. Things like, the nonexistent English word "bocket" sounding like Brazilian slang for blowjob ("boquete"), but only when spoken the way a Brazilian would. I think this cross-pronouncing thing would actually be harder to tackle: It's more important to try to match the way users on their home locale would say the foreign term, than the way the for…
I'd be really interested in knowing how do they do the phonetic matching. Honestly, the code for that sucks. It just looks for specific variations of letter combinations. I guess a more robust approach would try to build up a real phonetic representation of the word, then apply various languages' orthographic rules to that to check for matches.
I'm no expert on phonetic matching, but a product I worked on many years ago used Soundex. (It's meant for English pronunciation, so you'd have to research other languages)
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#124Doesn't support even the most dirty Dutch words! Could use more languages :)
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#125Hey guys, I made this last week as a two-evening side project. Happy to see it posted here, thanks randall! I know the word lists aren't complete. This was the best I could do given the time constraint, the fact that I don't actually speak 19 languages... And also, after two evenings of googling dirty words, I started feeling like I'm about to acquire Tourette's in some unknown language ;) I'll update the database wi…
You may want to look at slang as well. I tried both "knob" and "bell end". It said both were safe. Maybe they may be safe-ish in the US, but in Britain they are definitely slang words that could result in quite a chuckle if you named your app that.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#126It doesn't match some balkanic or eastern european words.
Some of us don't appreciate tracking links, please get rid of tracking so we don't have to manually edit the urls.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#127Dutch: http://www.taalkabaal.nl/scheldwoorden/indexa.php
Have fun. Some of these are spelled incorrectly, so run them through a spell-checker.
While I'm at it, let me translate some personal favourites. I realize they are quite long and unlikely candidates for the next hot SF start-up, but why keep knowledge away from the masses:
adderengebroedsels - offspring of vipers
argeologisch kontfossiel - archaeological ass fossil
bosuil - Strix aluco
duinbewoner - dune dweller
ebverzuiper - person who drowns during ebb (burnnn)
greppelheks - ditch witch
ingeblikte atlas - canned atlas (??)
janksnor - literally "crying mustache"
kamelenzuurvleesoog - literally "camels-Sauerbraten-eye" (???)
mountendeldarmbeklimmer -- literally "climber of Mt. rectum"
paashaasschaamhaarverzamelaar -- literally "collector of Easter Bunny pubes"
rioolpinguin -- sewer pinguin
tepelbaviaan -- nipple baboon
I have submitted several short and useful Dutch words to grant myself license for this comment.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#128Searched for Imen, nothing.
Lousy program
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#129I believe you can make a good use of http://www.urbandictionary.com/ to update your database, because there are also lot of foreign words, which you miss at the moment. (pula - Romanian for dick, fasz - Hungarian for dick, piča - Czech/Slovak for cunt, etc.)