WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

Post by nailer » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 9:10 AM UTC

thekevan wrote: post #125

pavlov wrote: post #25

Hey 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.

Post by ragazzina » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 9:40 AM UTC

davidw wrote: post #10

Italian one needs work. It did not have 'minchia' in it, which is no longer even all that regional, AFAIK. Didn't have 'mona' either, although that could be foregiven as it's dialect in the Veneto.

Post by pvaldes » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 11:50 AM UTC

6t6t6 wrote: post #265

pvaldes wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, catalan people have the ñ letter in their alphabet because they are spaniards, is just that some of them prefer to ignore this for political reasons, and they choose instead to do simple things complicated. Both systems are a question of convenience, so no one is perfect. You can choose between the useful (and trendy in two or three spanish communities) "ny" or the older "gn" charged of historical context and s…

And this, kids, is how a Spanish hater looks like. If anyone is interested, Catalan[1] is a Latin language spoken in Catalonia and other areas of the North East of Spain, South of France and a city in Italy. It is also the official language of a country: Andorra. It has about 10 million speakers[2], a bit more that Swedish, that is an official working language in the EU. Its use has been forbidden in Spain during 300…

Post by digi_owl » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 1:17 PM UTC

BasDirks wrote: post #127

Dutch: 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 f…

Post by xigency » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

semicolondev wrote: post #184

Submitted 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