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Good thing Denmark is a small market as it means Dick in Danish.

by ThomPete 9y ago

martin_bech 9y ago
It litteraly means dick.. i mean.. no words.
- cptskippy 9y ago
  Oddly the name Dick is spelled and pronounced just like the slang term for a man's penis in the English language. You would think that would offend American puritanical sensibilities but the name is quite common.
  - mercer 9y ago
    In Holland there's a famous 90s detective show with a main character surnamed 'De Cock'. One of his 'catchphrases' is that upon being introduced to someone, he explicitly spells out C-O-C-K to them (because in Dutch the typical spelling is K-O-K), which means 'cook'. Despite the fact that Dutch people are often fluent in English, and despite the fact that we even had a prime-minister with the name 'Kok', there's a surprisingly low number of jokes, in my opinion, involving this particular surname. I guess somehow the context switch from Dutch to English is big enough that it's just not all that funny.
iRobbery 9y ago
In The Netherlands too, cant wait till i can shout at my co-worker to convert some image to it.
- cec 9y ago
  I'd be careful about asking your co-workers for "dick pics".
  - nevir 9y ago
    Pik pics
egeozcan 9y ago
Change the first letter to S and guess what you get in Turkish... It's far enough that it wouldn't be necessarily embarrassing to mention but interesting in the light of this knowledge.
Rzor 9y ago
It sounds like "dick" in Brazilian-Portuguese too.
sondr3 9y ago
I'm just gonna start naming my projects by rolling my face on my keyboard, that way I won't have to be afraid of naming it something offensive in another language. /s
- majewsky 9y ago
  A naming pattern that I used for some time was to open the Wikipedia article of the thing that my program is about, and look in the sidebar for nice-sounding names for it in another language. It often ended up being something Scandinavian. For example, KDE's jigsaw puzzle game is called Palapeli (Finnish for "jigsaw puzzle") for this reason.
- jaclaz 9y ago
  ... freak wormholes in space-time continuum permitting, of course... http://www.mostly-harmless.de/crllstlk.htm http://www.mostly-harmless.de/crllstlk.htm
vacri 9y ago
The ipad sounded like a menstrual product for about a year, then it lost that connotation...
Systemic33 9y ago
Yes, and it's bad enough that pic as shorthand sounds identical. But I'll look forward to hearing about people sending a dick pic in pik format. ^_^
adamredwoods 9y ago
I strongly feel the most popular image/video formats are dependent on how they sound when people speak them.
kazinator 9y ago
I have a bone to pik with you. Just thought of the Teledyne Waterpik brand. What did they ever do with that in Denmark? According to this FB post: https://www.facebook.com/JstTht/posts/134568413284684?_fb_noscript=1 https://www.facebook.com/JstTht/posts/134568413284684?_fb_no... Quote: Waterpik uses another name in Denmark. "Pik" is the common Danish word for male genitals. Most Danes can easily translate "water" to the danish word "vand". And "vandpik" is a term for the morning erection. "And you put that thing in your mouth?!?!"
epse 9y ago
Flemish dude here. it's a dialect word for dick

Good thing Denmark is a small market as it means Dick in Danish.

martin_bech 9y ago

It litteraly means dick.. i mean.. no words.

cptskippy 9y ago
Oddly the name Dick is spelled and pronounced just like the slang term for a man's penis in the English language. You would think that would offend American puritanical sensibilities but the name is quite common.
- mercer 9y ago
  In Holland there's a famous 90s detective show with a main character surnamed 'De Cock'. One of his 'catchphrases' is that upon being introduced to someone, he explicitly spells out C-O-C-K to them (because in Dutch the typical spelling is K-O-K), which means 'cook'. Despite the fact that Dutch people are often fluent in English, and despite the fact that we even had a prime-minister with the name 'Kok', there's a surprisingly low number of jokes, in my opinion, involving this particular surname. I guess somehow the context switch from Dutch to English is big enough that it's just not all that funny.

iRobbery 9y ago

In The Netherlands too, cant wait till i can shout at my co-worker to convert some image to it.

cec 9y ago
I'd be careful about asking your co-workers for "dick pics".
- nevir 9y ago
  Pik pics

egeozcan 9y ago

Change the first letter to S and guess what you get in Turkish... It's far enough that it wouldn't be necessarily embarrassing to mention but interesting in the light of this knowledge.

Rzor 9y ago

It sounds like "dick" in Brazilian-Portuguese too.

sondr3 9y ago

I'm just gonna start naming my projects by rolling my face on my keyboard, that way I won't have to be afraid of naming it something offensive in another language. /s

majewsky 9y ago
A naming pattern that I used for some time was to open the Wikipedia article of the thing that my program is about, and look in the sidebar for nice-sounding names for it in another language. It often ended up being something Scandinavian. For example, KDE's jigsaw puzzle game is called Palapeli (Finnish for "jigsaw puzzle") for this reason.
jaclaz 9y ago
... freak wormholes in space-time continuum permitting, of course... http://www.mostly-harmless.de/crllstlk.htm http://www.mostly-harmless.de/crllstlk.htm

vacri 9y ago

The ipad sounded like a menstrual product for about a year, then it lost that connotation...

Systemic33 9y ago

Yes, and it's bad enough that pic as shorthand sounds identical. But I'll look forward to hearing about people sending a dick pic in pik format. ^_^

adamredwoods 9y ago

I strongly feel the most popular image/video formats are dependent on how they sound when people speak them.

kazinator 9y ago

I have a bone to pik with you. Just thought of the Teledyne Waterpik brand. What did they ever do with that in Denmark? According to this FB post: https://www.facebook.com/JstTht/posts/134568413284684?_fb_noscript=1 https://www.facebook.com/JstTht/posts/134568413284684?_fb_no... Quote: Waterpik uses another name in Denmark. "Pik" is the common Danish word for male genitals. Most Danes can easily translate "water" to the danish word "vand". And "vandpik" is a term for the morning erection. "And you put that thing in your mouth?!?!"

epse 9y ago

Flemish dude here. it's a dialect word for dick