Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest

Re:Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest by dbbolton on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:02PM (#9671225)

>The PiuPiu oversharing site allows users to create PiuPiu accounts and post 140-character messages.

Hah- "Piu-Piu" is the Brazilian-Portuguese name for the Looney Tunes character Tweety:

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piu-piu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweety

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Re:Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest by andrepd on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:46PM (#9671387)

Yes, and "piu" is the Portuguese onomatopoeia for "tweet".

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Re:Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest by lamuerteflaca on Saturday June 06, 2015 @02:28PM (#9671714)

And in Spanish it is "pio" for tweet. Very close to the portuguese one.

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Re:Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest by joeyoung on Saturday June 06, 2015 @03:18PM (#9671884)

Interesting. I think "pio" is the onomatopoeia for tweet in Japanese too. It's the noise cash registers at Tokyo's Inageya supermarkets make when you use their points card.

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Re:Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest by djfm on Saturday June 06, 2015 @04:39PM (#9672177)

And in French "piou piou" can be used colloquially to mean "bird"... Many languages seem to agree on this.

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Re:Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest by balazsdavid987 on Sunday June 07, 2015 @02:19AM (#9673614)

In Hungarian, "pee-pee-pee-pee" is used to at farms to call chicken. :) And sometimes, young woman are called "pee-pee"-s, in a playful way.

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