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How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by dimatura »

qalmakka wrote: post #23

This is indeed hilarious. Even for an Italian ear it kinda sounds like that. I hope that in Spanish or Portuguese it doesn't evoke that kind of feeling too, but I am afraid it probably does. You probably made your product very hilarious (and probably hard to sell) for the entirety of the Romance-speaking market...

Yeah, it does. "Culio" could be seen as the past tense of the verb "culear" - derived from the word for ass - and which, as far as I know, is a naughty word in most of latin america.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by C4stor »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #30
eurasiantiger wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The term cul-de-sac is not that uncommon in American English, given the amount of suburbs having them.

Really wondering about the origin of that phrase. The literal translation is "ass of bag"?

Since a bag ("sac") has no exit hole ("cul"), and so a "cul-de-sac" is a (I guess 2nd degree ?) way of saying "way with no exit".

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by alexaholic »

qalmakka wrote: post #23

This is indeed hilarious. Even for an Italian ear it kinda sounds like that. I hope that in Spanish or Portuguese it doesn't evoke that kind of feeling too, but I am afraid it probably does. You probably made your product very hilarious (and probably hard to sell) for the entirety of the Romance-speaking market...

> You probably made your product very hilarious (and probably hard to sell) for the entirety of the Romance-speaking market...

Not quite the entirety of it: "magicul" means "magical" in Romanian.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by dimatura »

wonderbore wrote: post #25

So what? Italian automobile giant Fiat recently turned "FCA", which is the Italian equivalent of "PSSY" It's fine, people joke and then move onto the next TikTok video.

You know this SUV, the Pajero? IIRC they changed its name for the chilean market, because there "pajero" is well established slang that translates roughly to "wanker", but with extra connotations of laziness and weakness.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by bambax »

When the Australian government decided to cancel the order of a dozen of French submarines, they announced that they had made a new special alliance with the US and the UK. The name of the alliance is "AUKUS" (Australia-UK-US).

But "au cul" in French of course means "(fuck) in the ass". "Vous l'avez dans le cul" means "you've been fucked in the ass".

As the cancelling of the order was received by France as a giant betrayal from Australia, it's believed the name of the alliance was an intentional insult from people who knew what they were doing.

I don't know if that's true but I tend to believe it is.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by LinAGKar »

wonderbore wrote: post #25

So what? Italian automobile giant Fiat recently turned "FCA", which is the Italian equivalent of "PSSY" It's fine, people joke and then move onto the next TikTok video.

Same with Honda Fitta, with fitta being Swedish for pussy. And kiss, famously the name of a band, is Swedish for pee. Stadler also named one of their trains KISS, though in Sweden they marketed it by the working name Dosto.
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