Searched for Tina but it found nothing, in North Africa it means pu$$y,
What are we, five year olds?
Pussy.
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
#222As we are in the subject, does the brand names "Dickies" "Dick's Sporting Goods" or even the character "Dick Tracy" seems awkward name choices for US people/native english speakers?
As a ESL, the first time I heard of them it was kind of funny. I guess when one grows up in the context of those names is not that appalling...
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#223So there's a restaurant near me called "Pho King". It's pho king delicious. Anyway, this tool doesn't know how 'pho' is pronounced in Vietnamese because it didn't catch it.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#224Hey 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…
Can't edit my original comment anymore, so here's analytics update #2, with OS statistics as requested:
http://wordsafety.com/img/analytics_2015-08-25_2207_os.jpg
And browser:
http://wordsafety.com/img/analytics_2015-08-25_2207_browser....
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#225mensa means stupid in spanish.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Or "root" in Australia.
Quick, somebody point me in the direction of some witty australian UNIX jokes.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#227wix.com should have had a look at that site...
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#228Hey 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…
> 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 ;) Despite all that, I'm impressed by the level of completion for Bengali and Hindi. I tried a few variations of several common Bengali…
For each language I used several random sources on the web, sort-of crosschecked for multiple spellings, etc.
This Hindi site was definitely my favorite:
http://www.hindilearner.com/hindi_bad_words.html
After all the insane insults that I'm too shy to repeat, there's an awesome deadpan note at the end: "Learn to avoid these Hindi Bad Words in your Hindi conversation." Thanks for teaching them first?!
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#229As we are in the subject, does the brand names "Dickies" "Dick's Sporting Goods" or even the character "Dick Tracy" seems awkward name choices for US people/native english speakers? As a ESL, the first time I heard of them it was kind of funny. I guess when one grows up in the context of those names is not that appalling...
You're exactly right. Growing up with the words removes them from being recognizable as dirty. Note also, Dick is a name (or nickname for Richard). Language is weird sometimes...