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Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by Abraln » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:48 PM UTC

gus_massa wrote: post #122

mrleinad wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 exp…

It's definitely very important to realize that Spanish-speaking countries, while nominally speaking the same language, are very different. Spain has an entire verb tense that is not in Mexican Spanish. And unconfirmed example I have heard is pico de gallo. In Mexican Spanish it means something that's not too dissimilar from salsa, yet in some parts of South America, pico means penis. I heard there was an issue with a Nintendo DS game for children that revolved around cooking that assumed they were all the same and had a recipe for pico de gallo!

Edit: grammar/spelling

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by pvaldes » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:49 PM UTC

One of the funniest in Spain: facultad (faculty). An innocent word, with a very common and poisoned abbreviature. "Nos vamos a la fac" (We go to the university). English speakers always hear another thing. Totally homophone with the called "f-word"

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by paulnechifor » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:56 PM UTC

While you have this on the front page, why not start a repo where people can send pull requests, rather than submit one word at a time?

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by seszett » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #87

gorena wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emm Are Two == Merde?

Nah, it actually sounds more like 'emmerdeur' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emmerder A bit of trivia, there's a radio that is called NRJ which sounds like 'énergie' when you say it (in French)

It actually sounds more like "eh merde !", which would be "oh shit!".

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by personlurking » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 7:03 PM UTC

Pretty cool. And the example I chose, funny.

I searched "foda" (f--- in Brazil) just to try it out, here's the result, which actually mentions the Amazon. http://i.imgur.com/CUpSgN6.png

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by znarfdwarf01 » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 7:03 PM UTC

elros wrote: post #22

I'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…

Another interesting example for a soundex marching would be Coca Cola's failed energy drink "full throttle", which rrsembles the german " Volltrottel" (complete dumbass)

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by normloman » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 7:05 PM UTC

This doesn't work for Esperanto. Fiku vin!

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by rramdin » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 7:06 PM UTC

I've been blessed to name my new startup "Phucker."

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by maxhou » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 7:07 PM UTC

I'd have expected a small easteregg for the word "bro" ;)

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

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Post by orjan » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 7:10 PM UTC

"He had a computer that knew all the names of all the companies, and another one that checked if the made-up word meant "dickhead" or something in Chinese or Swedish."

-- William Gibson, "Mona Lisa Overdrive"

https://books.google.se/books?id=QojrNYyGMyEC&pg=PA118#v=one...