News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A Look at Firefox Forks. Parent comment

Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by wruza on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:34AM (#43377635)
Tangent, how does “mullvad” sound to native speakers (and non-natives too)? I can’t tell why, but it feels like such an unfortunate combination of phonemes that I avoid even looking into it subconsciously. Can barely force myself to pronounce it, is that just me?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by kseistrup on Sunday March 16, 2025 @05:02AM (#43377745)
To native Swedish speakers it will look and sound like just another common Swedish word. And in the context it will even sound like a relevant choice of name.

/me is Danish, and the Danish equivalent would be ‘muldvarp’.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by pdntspa on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:49AM (#43377692)
It's just another foreign-sounding word in a language full of kidnapped vocabulary
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by nameequalsmain on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:56AM (#43377719)
Mullvad is Swedish for "mole". Mull is a word for soil, and "vad" seems to come from "vada", wade. So translated it would be "soilwade".

To me, it sounds like just another word.

[ Parent | on HN ]