Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies

Re:Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies by maccard on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:28AM (#16820671)

Unfortunately common things in one language often mean other things in another language. The author is clearly trying to share this with the English speaking world, (the site is English after all), so it stands to reason that you would choose your words carefully in English.

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Re:Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies by disconnected on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:51AM (#16822172)

That is more difficult than it may appear.

Sometimes you need people that are pretty immersed in a culture to know about these things and avoid shooting yourself in the foot.

Hyundai, for example, almost made the mistake of releasing a vehicle named Kona in Portugal.

Kona is a pretty harmless word in most contexts, but "kona" reads exactly like "cona" for a Portuguese speaker, and "cona" is slag for "vagina".

Oops.

They renamed it Kauai for the Portuguese market, IIRC.

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Re:Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies by maccard on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:00PM (#16822822)

In the general case, yes. But googling for Munt will tell you that it's not really a suitable name for a product.

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Re:Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies by klmr on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:57AM (#16822232)

There’s also the Ford Pinto. In Brazilian (!) Portuguese, “pinto” is close to the male equivalent of “cona”.

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Re:Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies by blunte on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:04AM (#16821647)

If you survey Americans, I think you would find a very small percentage who had ever heard the word "munt".

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Re:Show HN: Munt – The simplest way to accept cryptocurrencies by OrganicMSG on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:37AM (#16822032)

Or Zune, even now.

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