WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by thekevan on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @02:41PM (#10118638)

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.

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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by pyre on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @05:22PM (#10119539)

Or "root" in Australia.

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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by RIMR on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @06:14PM (#10119797)

Quick, somebody point me in the direction of some witty australian UNIX jokes.

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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by pavlov on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @06:20PM (#10119827)

What did the sysadmin buy her wife for Valentine's Day? A rootkit.

(Just made that one up... Not genuine Australian. Also, I can't tell jokes.)

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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by tacticus on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @09:15PM (#10120453)

well your jokes certainly fit.

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Re:WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreig... by nailer on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @05:10AM (#10121887)

There's an area of San Francisco that styles itself as 'the tender knob'. Oh the mirth.

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