Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name

Re:Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name by dongsheng on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:20AM (#2995108)

> Various distros have official Chinese translations.

  Debian -> 大便
  Ubuntu -> 俺不土
  Gentoo -> 真土

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Re:Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name by redcap on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:49AM (#2995169)

While I don't know about Chinese, in Japanese 大 means 'large' and 便 can be read as 'faeces'.

So perhaps the name for Debian in Chinese is actually "big poo".

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Re:Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name by dongsheng on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:03AM (#2995197)

Yep, just a joke people made to laugh at the pronunciation of Debian is the same as "big poo" in chinese, but we love Debian of course ;)

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Re:Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name by riobard on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:00AM (#2995192)

Bingo!

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Re:Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name by est on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:09AM (#2995211)

Here is a Chinese browser name:

Maxthon - 马桶

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Re:Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name by hawflakes on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:57AM (#2995188)

Debian... 哈哈哈!

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