False positive: "hat" was flagged for "idiot" in English. I can't find a dictionary with that definition, and it's not one that I'm familiar with as a native speaker.
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
#162This is great! There are certain puns/combos that would be really hard to catch though.
For example - the Ford Nova. In Spanish, it literally translates to "no va" "doesn't go". Terrible name for a car.
I'm unsure how to make this understand the context of the product, but that would be the next step
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#163I use a similar method to find brandable names and domain names. I'll input a word or synonym of into Google Lang Tools and translate it into all the available languages. I've had really good success in doing so.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#164Hey 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…
That's very cool. Interesting to see. I just thought that there would be a lot more returning visits. I know that I've used the site more than once, and now have it bookmarked in my "tools" folder. ;)
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#165Earlier 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…
(Valgarity alert for Spanish speakers!)
Indeed. "Coger" is not found, but more universal vulgarities such as "puta", "verga", "mierda" are found.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#166This is great! There are certain puns/combos that would be really hard to catch though. For example - the Ford Nova. In Spanish, it literally translates to "no va" "doesn't go". Terrible name for a car. I'm unsure how to make this understand the context of the product, but that would be the next step
"Colgate" similarly passed. In Spanish, it's the imperative command "Hang yourself".
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#167Doesnt detect any greek curse words
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#168Excellent idea. Given the number of people here who missed the "add a word" function, you might want to mention it up top with a negative result. > No results found for this search. It looks likely that it's safe... say this in hopes to get fuller coverage because it looks like a useful tool.
I updated the "no results" text, thanks!
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#169It seems that "fuk" is not recognised as sounding like "fuck". Might want to look at that phonetic matcher :)