tried a few words from Indian languages and got matches for other languages..
Interesting to see how you have implemented this...
WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?!
Those are some wonderfully imaginative insults. I did like that near the end, after endless filth, they've put "Why are you boring me with this useless narrative?"
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
One detail to consider about Spanish is that each country has it local variation, so there are some words that are totally safe in some countries but have a totally different unwanted meaning in others. For example "coger" means "pick" in Span and "fuck" in Argentina. (If you say it in Argentina with a Spanish accent the you will not get into troubles, but the people will give a subtle weird look and someone will exp…
How is this different from English? Another poster mentioned "knob" being offensive in the UK but it's an everyday word here in Seattle. (It means "door handle".) How is the "coger" example different?
The joys of slang. You could just as easily use the sentence "I need to fit a new doorknob" or "Twiddle that knob there to turn the volume up" in the UK and not get any funny looks. It just so happens that if you said "Can I twiddle your knobs" to a group of sound engineers they might take it the wrong way.
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#274Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#275Where was this when these guys were picking their name? http://pidora.ca/
155 million native speakers.
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?!
These are brilliant:
Gaand main lassan: Garlic in ass
Is this an insult or an old medical remedy?
Lundoos: Born into this world from a dick
You really have a word for this?
Toto: Penis
There must've been some giggles in the 80's music scene.
Teri Jhanten Kaat kar tere mooh par laga kar unki french beard bana doonga: I will cut your pubic hair and stick them on your face and make a goatee on your face.
Ohkaay
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#277Very nice ! could save the day in foreign country
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#278"bite" is safe according to this tool. Any french speaker does a double take when they see that word though, especially in certain sentences. For reference: https://askafrenchguy.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/petite-bites-... Edit: Yes, I have submitted it to the database, it should get vetted eventually. A crowdsourced process for the vetting could be fun too!
I remember a native French speaker was kind of disturbed by the sentence "où est ma chatte?", which is the sample French sentence Alice thinks of in Alice in Wonderland when she speculates that mice might speak French or Latin instead of English. (In the original story, it was disturbing to the mouse, too, though for a different reason!) (Edit: this site's database recognizes "chatte" as a concern in French.)
I imagine "where is my pussy" would get a chuckle out of most anglophones today, too...
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#279"expertsexchange" only matches the Chinese “cha”, and not "sex" or "sexchange".
Coincidentally cha1 ("1" here means the first tone in pinyin) is a sexual innuendo alluding to sexual intercourse. The character itself, which means "to insert", has nothing to do with sex in normal usage though. And most importantly, there is virtually zero resemblance between the pronunciation of "change" and that of "cha1".
> to have sex (lit. insert).
> Source: a long list of Chinese profanity on Wikipedia.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese_profanity
Re: WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages
#280Hey 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 added two common examples from the infosec and node communities: 'nonce' (which means pedophile in proper English) and 'gyp' (which is a pejorative for gypsy).