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"bite" is safe according to this tool. Any french speaker does a double take when they see that word though, especially in certain sentences. For reference: ht
by mcorrand 11y ago
"bite" is safe according to this tool.
Any french speaker does a double take when they see that word though, especially in certain sentences.
For reference:
https://askafrenchguy.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/petite-bites-pauvre-nancy/ https://askafrenchguy.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/petite-bites-...
Edit: Yes, I have submitted it to the database, it should get vetted eventually. A crowdsourced process for the vetting could be fun too!
- backtoyoujim 11y agomuch less "bitenuker" which is highly offensive to those who speak either French or Dutch.
- rgj 11y agoI'm Dutch and I know my offensive language. Never heard of that.
- protonfish 11y agoIt's a joke from 30 Rock.
- ruraljuror 11y agoA Franco-Dutchman would pronounce it bete-neuker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqszqbd5cLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqszqbd5cLg
- baby 11y ago"pipi" as well http://i.imgur.com/VcSKnTb.png http://i.imgur.com/VcSKnTb.png
- flurpitude 11y ago"zizi" too.
- r0naa 11y ago"Kekette" as well
- Qantourisc 11y agoIn Dutch pipi is dialect for urination, often used when talking/referring to children.
- _lce0 11y agoIn Spanish it's exactly the same. I wonder were the roots of that is?
- DasIch 11y agoIn German as well, though I guess that's not very surprising.
- bitwize 11y agoIt's "peepee" in English but you are likely to get a chuckle if you name your product "pipi". Back in 2006 Nintendo ran into this problem with the Wii ("wee" or "weewee" is also slang for urination eapecially among children.)
- danieltillett 11y agoI always thought this was deliberate. You are telling me no one in Nintendo knew what Wii would mean to kids?
- krapp 11y agoWhat it means to foreign kids. It's not surprising that a Japanese company wouldn't have that fine a grasp on English nuance.
- wildpeaks 11y ago"Verge" is similarily hilarious for french speakers
- Rockdtben 11y agoThere is a form to submit words that are missing.
- twohearted 11y agoThis was the first word I tried too. As a frenchman in the US I can't help but laugh every time I see "bite" used on a product. It's the most common slang for "dick" in french, everyone knows it. Juvenile, yes, but still hilarious. Examples: http://bitesubite.tumblr.com/archive http://bitesubite.tumblr.com/archive
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoThe mature side of me sees a great tool that will help to avoid unintended public image issues. The immature side of me sees a great tool for picking immature names for online games that won't be flagged.
- sandebert 11y agoAnd 7 Eleven in Sweden managed to make it even more dirty by using the headline "Bite sale!", which apparently means "Dirty dick!" in french. As if that wasn't bad enough, the ad was actually meant to sell sausages. To kids. Reference: http://z.cdn-expressen.se/images/a3/9b/a39b426464844e3ba6ef370f9d7cb4c4/615@70.jpg http://z.cdn-expressen.se/images/a3/9b/a39b426464844e3ba6ef3...
- mcorrand 11y ago"Oh thank heaven". This is so hilariously unfortunate. The funny part is that I really don't notice "bite" in this way if it's surrounded by English words. The tumblr blog listed downthread does nothing for me for example. But if the surrounding words exist in French too, my brain invariably gets tricked into switching to French.
- strathmeyer 11y agoIt's not searching for 'sounds like', it doesn't think 'fuc' or 'fuch' are bad words.
- schoen 11y agoI remember a native French speaker was kind of disturbed by the sentence "où est ma chatte?", which is the sample French sentence Alice thinks of in Alice in Wonderland when she speculates that mice might speak French or Latin instead of English. (In the original story, it was disturbing to the mouse, too, though for a different reason!) (Edit: this site's database recognizes "chatte" as a concern in French.)
- niklasni1 11y agoI imagine "where is my pussy" would get a chuckle out of most anglophones today, too...