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FYI: Kot in German = excrements

• mixmastamyk 9y ago
  Ha, reminds me of a juice booth/startup the other day at the tech fair named "Suja," which means dirty or obscene in Portuguese!
  • seba_dos1 9y ago
    My favorite example is a popular German light bulb brand, Osram, which is also known in Poland. In Polish it means roughly "I'll put my excrement [on it]" :P
    • aluhut 9y ago
      "The curve" - "Kurve" in German was my favorite learning German. Osram was close though :D
    • taneq 9y ago
      While we're at it, Italian cooking appliance brand Smeg invokes something quite different in English.
• kotcity 9y ago
  Take it up with the Kotlin guys :)
  • aluhut 9y ago
    It's well hidden in there. Kot City though made me smile like some schoolboy :D
    • fileeditview 9y ago
      I think Kot in Kotlin is rather pronounced like the German "Kott" would. However I of course had the same association in mind when I saw the title. It's hard to come up with names that are fine in all/most languages :)
      • kotcity 9y ago
        Updated FAQ: https://github.com/kotcity/kotcity/blob/master/README.md#q-bedeutet-kot-nicht--in-deutsch https://github.com/kotcity/kotcity/blob/master/README.md#q-b...
        • aluhut 9y ago
          lol nice however "Du hast Recht" is the proper translation alternative if you want to translate "that's right" -> "So ist es."
          • kotcity 9y ago
            Fixed
• seba_dos1 9y ago
  FYI: in Polish, "kot" means "cat". Also, Kotlin is a popular ketchup brand here (unrelated to cats though) :P