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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by cwkoss on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @12:10PM (#10117449)
Anyone find any real-world matches? I was able to get positives by typing in foreign curses directly, but couldn't find any startups with foreign curses in their name.
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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by elros on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @12:16PM (#10117512)
Not a startup, but yesterday I was impressed with the font Skolar, which name I mistakenly remembered as Skola, and apparently it's considered close enough to "Chola", which is Hindi for clitoris.

The "level of worriness" does go down (pun intended) when I type the font's correct name.

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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by lclemente on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @12:12PM (#10117467)
"airbnb" results in

  “ayr”
  Arabic: penis
The only one I could find, so just bad luck :)
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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by eterm on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @12:17PM (#10117527)
Wikipedia was the closest I found, not really a start up though.
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