WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages • Hacker News Board

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

#111

Post by BasDirks » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:21 PM UTC

submitted a bunch in Dutch.

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

#112

Post by mrleinad » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:21 PM UTC

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…

Searched several spanish words, nothing was found. I guess no support for spanish yet?

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

#113

Post by paulsutter » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:24 PM UTC

Excellent 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.

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

#114

Post by alanh » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:25 PM UTC

> We respect your privacy — input is never logged or monitored.

Except it is logged and monitored by the US Government because this site uses unencrypted HTTP.

Otherwise, a commendable sentiment…

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

#115

Post by RomanPushkin » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:26 PM UTC

pajero is not safe

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

#116

Post by marianov » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:26 PM UTC

RomanPushkin wrote: post #115

pajero is not safe

Was the first thing I tried being from Argentina. Big fail.

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

#117

Post by ivankirigin » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

I searched "gift" expecting "poison" from German, and was disappointed when nothing came up.

Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

#118

Post by yetihehe » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

_lce0 wrote: post #94

Qantourisc wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Dutch pipi is dialect for urination, often used when talking/referring to children.

In Spanish it's exactly the same. I wonder were the roots of that is?