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Show HN: A generator of Fake Italian Coffee names
- MrDunham 5y agoI clicked the link, read the copy, and was laughing/enjoying myself so much that I had to come back to drop a comment. 100% worth the time. This was a wonderful way to start the day.
- tianlong 5y agoI'm glad it made you laugh! :)
- sdoering 5y agoI agree. It was a great lunch time past time. I loved it. Reminded me of "Tech Names as a service" from Vincent Warmerdam on pyData 2017 (Berlin) [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hR4peP9V4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hR4peP9V4A
- jerrygoyal 5y agoI'd probably never try Fartica coffee.
- nynox 5y agoFake foreign words can sometimes take a life of their own, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-French_words_in_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-French_words_in... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-German_words_in_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-German_words_in... My favorite coffee name so far is definitely Urino Decaffeinato
- gpderetta 5y agothat doesn't sound very tasty, but to each their own I guess.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago>Urino Decaffeinato I think I was drinking that this morning.
- kergonath 5y agoThe first link is terrible. “Voir dire” is not pseudo-French, it’s an archaic expression from old Norman French (a lot of such phrases ended up in English legal language). Also, “nom de plume” is used commonly in French.
- sdoering 5y agoAfter having had a similar discussion about that with a colleague from Italy last week, I just had to forward this to her and her Data Science team. Especially the "Angered Italians (AI) Recurrent Neural Network" made me (and hopefully her) crack up.
- WalterGR 5y agoIt's easy to miss the "Give me a Coffee name" button at the bottom. Edit: I expected it to automatically generate a coffee name. So when I first viewed the page, I assumed it was broken due to the HN "Hug of Death" and left. I only viewed it again because I was surprised about the number of upvotes.
- phgn 5y agoSame. Mentally I thought this was a "buymeacoffee" donation link, and just left the page confused.
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- katspaugh 5y agoUX suggestions: - make the "Give me a Coffee name" button 5x larger - place the button and generated name in the middle of the page, not at the bottom - remove the pink border from the secondary title ("Create your own...") because it looks like a button.
- CamelCaseName 5y agoYes, if not for your comment I would have never found it. I thought it was the "buy me a coffee" donation type link at first glance.
- tedmiston 5y agosame -- i thought it was just broken on mobile
- ellimilial 5y agoYes please, it took me over 5 secs to figure out what to click, felt like ages.
- soco 5y agoThe first title box increases also in height with page width - on my laptop I get quite a huge stamp, while on the mobile it's same size as the button below. Ah, and on my Samsung Galaxy the button doesn't get the special cursive font, no matter which browser I use.
- chiefofgxbxl 5y agoThe paragraph text is also difficult to read on top of the page background pattern. Maybe add a white background to the text?
- qwerty456127 5y agoFinding the button seems so hard this even seems a feature rather than a bug. Sort of a game.
- hoyd 5y agoI remember someone to nice wrote a perl script that generated a random, but possible coffee based on all ingredients and such. Loved it.
- ellimilial 5y agoDiffusione Urino Sure it's delish, very appealing.
- jinto36 5y agoYep, this seems to be pretty much how Nespresso pods get named- both the "official" ones and "compatible" ones from Target, etc.
- przemub 5y agoEffusione Urina. I can make my own uric infusion at home - is that the next unicorn?
- undebuggable 5y agodoppio venti mezzo litro
- sfgweilr4f 5y agoI like this. I'd like similar for pizza as well. The real joke is the fact that most Italians look at US coffee with a sense of either vague or specific disappointment. Does not matter what fancy name you come up with. On the other hand you could try asking an Italian barista for a Latte and see what you end up with.
- fspacef 5y agoHaha this is quite clever
- martin_a 5y agoJust a quick thought, while I'm sipping my Schiatondont Lungo Decaffeinato: You could make the "give me a coffee name" button larger. Also some space after the button would make it look nicer, I think.
- 1cvmask 5y agoWe somehow came out with AI (Angered Italians) with the Americano: The term "caffè Americano" specifically is Italian for "American coffee". There is a popular, but unconfirmed, belief that the name has its origins in World War II when American G.I.s in Italy would dilute espresso with hot water to approximate the coffee to which they were accustomed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_Americano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_Americano
- bloopernova 5y agoMy favourite coffee is called Lobster Butter Love, so these names don't seem quite out of the ordinary for me! (Lobster Butter Love is from Roos Roast in The People's Republic of Ann Arbor, Michigan) Thank you, OP, for making this site, it made me laugh :)
- pmontra 5y agoIs the Erenzione Lungo blue?
- squarefoot 5y agoAs an Italian I had to try it, of course. Luckily none of the 30 or so generated names could fool a coffee drinking Italian. Our tradition is safe ...for now:)
- ale42 5y agoAs a native Italian speaker I think that the tradition is safe from AI for now... Uussimanto or Dantentandim doesn't quite sound like Italian ;) And there might be a bit too many "Effusione" names :)
- kevinmgranger 5y agoYeah, 90% of the ones I generated start with Effusione. Must be a popular technique in fake-Italy.
- tianlong 5y agoEffusione is wide spread in the world of fake Italian Coffees. I can not name the brand :)
- tomcooks 5y agoVery nice, these fake works upset me as well. As a foreigner I do not understand how those made up nonsensical words (common in coffee, car model names, appliances, websites), or that stereotypical "mamma mia i speak-a english-a language" intonation aren't considered on par with making fun of the Asian stereotypical pronunciation or making up words like "Ching Chong Pling Plong" to sell something. Any native American can help me understand the difference between making fun of Asians/Blacks/other groups and italo-americans?
- kevinmgranger 5y agoItalians aren't discriminated against en masse in the US, so poking fun at the language is seen as "punching down".
- JohnWhigham 5y agoItalians aren't discriminated against en masse Neither are Asian Americans? Despite what the media wants you to believe
- mc32 5y agoPunching up and punching down are idiotic concepts. Either something is wrong or it isn’t wrong. This concept is basically a get out of jail free card people can use when they cross certain lines that is based on made up pretense that there exists a universal scale of power and weakness. It’s a manipulative tool that some people thought up to control conversation.
- joker99 5y agoAt least anymore. There used to be a time when discrimination against Italian Americans was quite the norm See: https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/italian/under-attack/ https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/italian/...
- r-zip 5y agoI think you mean punching up, or "isn't seen as punching down."
- Kaibeezy 5y agoI shit you not, first click was Schitunato Lungo. Next one was Effusione Mortando, possibly available at the Pastaway Cafe over by the Piazza di Spagna.
- legrande 5y agoYou could generate ideas for domain names with this too. Many people work backwards from a domain name to build their business/project/whatever. That is, the domain is dreamed up first before the name, instead of having a name for a project and then looking for a corresponding domain.
- whalesalad 5y agoI love that the call to action button is the smallest thing on the page.
- dylan604 5y agooh sure, break away from the thiscoffeedoesnotexist trope
- qwerty456127 5y agoI want more word generators!