Is Russian really supported? I tried both Cyrillic and Latin transliteration of some words and it reports it's all safe. For example, try any of the Russian synonyms for "shit". "говно" transliterates to "govno" and both check out as safe.
WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
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#182This 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
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
US-Based native Spanish speaker here. Very important indeed, specially when asking someone their age :) Whenever the ñ is not available (foreign keyboards, mobile, etc...), a decent substitute is "anyo", which is phonetically equivalent and also happens to be the Ladino variant of the word.
Agno is safer (same idea as in 'gnu'). "Anyo" is close phonetically to "anillo", that is a ring, but also a common source of jokes about little Frodo's sexuallity.
I think Catalan people don't have the "ñ" letter in their alphabet and they use instead this combination "ny" for that particular sound.
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#184Submitted bunch of Nepali swear words. People in Nepal will laugh out a loud when English speaking people talk about renting a Condo or generating a Rand number. Here are few /swear/ words in Nepali (Spoken by ~30M people)
Chick
Goo
Moose
Turi
Condo
Moot
Rand
Chalk
Lado
PuT
Fuse
If you are wondering what these words mean check this:
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#185Obligatory Arabic story of the last few years: the Pakistani ambassador who was rejected for service in the Gulf, because his name is Akbar Zib.
This is Arabic for biggest cock.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%...
No reputable source mentions this; only crap newspapers in different countries mention this. But every person I know in the Arab world knows this internet meme.
Almost as bad as naming your son after a deceased Libyan dictator, before he was dead of course. Perhaps I know one of those too. Talking about parenting jokes.
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#186If only Miyazaki would have had this when he named Laputa: Castle in the sky
FWIW, he got the name from Jonathan Swift:
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!".
I sounds more like "Hey merdeux !"
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
>Spain has an entire verb tense that is not in Mexican Spanish. Are you sure you mean tense? The verb has an additional form in each tense because of vosotros, but there are no additional tenses so far as I know.
It would probably be most accurate to say that it's an extra person.
Verbs can be inflected in various languages for gender, number, person [which can include degrees of formality, respect, or social distance], voice, mood, tense, aspect, ergativity [an alternative to voice], evidentiality [how the speaker knows that the thing happened], and other things I'm probably forgetting.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#189Submitted bunch of Nepali swear words. People in Nepal will laugh out a loud when English speaking people talk about renting a Condo or generating a Rand number. Here are few /swear/ words in Nepali (Spoken by ~30M people) Chick Goo Moose Turi Condo Moot Rand Chalk Lado PuT Fuse If you are wondering what these words mean check this: http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Nepali
Turi and Lado are not words in English? (Unless I'm very much mistaken). All the other's are, bar Rand, but that is a variable name beloved of coders!
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#190Pretty 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
You don't have to go very deep into the Amazon at all for that to be an insult. :-) What an amusing example.