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An unfortunate name since "Pippi" means pee in German. But then again, there probably are many names that are unfortunate in some language.
by grecht 6y ago
An unfortunate name since "Pippi" means pee in German. But then again, there probably are many names that are unfortunate in some language.
- erikschoster 6y agoThat made my day, I had no idea. :-) (It is named after Pippi Longstocking FWIW.)
- jwandborg 6y agoA fortunate name since Pippi is an actual name in swedish.
- photon-torpedo 6y agoActually the German word is "Pipi".
- sgt3pr 6y agoSecond this
- mhugo 6y agoSame in French ("pipi")
- whatch 6y agoTo avoid this, there is wordsafety.com, recently mentioned on HN[0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006618