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Re:When I first heard the name "Safari" by debacle on Thursday December 20, 2012 @09:49AM (#4947937)
Good translate is your friend.

Pick a language you don't know, and have at it:

"picture site" => "irudi_gune" (basque)

I find that Basque, Portuguese, and Welsh produce very good names.

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Re:When I first heard the name "Safari" by ufo on Thursday December 20, 2012 @08:42PM (#4951073)
As someone from Brazil, I wonder what kind of words would sound weird to an English speaker like that. I would have thought that most words would be recognizeable, given that English also has its fair share of Latin words.
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Re:When I first heard the name "Safari" by debacle on Thursday December 20, 2012 @10:16PM (#4951329)
Portugese is far enough from Latin that many of the English cognates are not immediately recognizable.

"Sangue bom," for example, is not visually translatable to English.

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