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It happens all the time. Apple's Siri means Ass in Japanese.
by ezoe 8y ago
It happens all the time. Apple's Siri means Ass in Japanese.
- greglindahl 8y agoOr you can recall the snickering when the iPad was introduced. Didn't seem to have negatively affected it.
- austinpray 8y agoI brought this up with my Japanese friend. He told me there are so many homophones in the language people are desensitised to stuff like this. For example: シ (shi) can mean both 四 (four) and 死 (death).
- SllX 8y agoYou’re not wrong, but your choice of examples isn’t great. Four is actually associated with death because it sounds like death, four is unlucky[4]. There is also an alternative pronunciation for “four”, よん。 [4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia