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My First Last name translates to Faithful Negro whenever I do translations from Any -> English. I always find it funny when dealing with bureaucracy.
by vjerancrnjak 3y ago
My First Last name translates to Faithful Negro whenever I do translations from Any -> English. I always find it funny when dealing with bureaucracy.
- irrational 3y agoConstance Black?
- selimthegrim 3y agoLook at the username
- timthelion 3y agoWhat percent of HN readers know a Slavic language? It is true, though, in Czech at least his user name is Faithful Black
- irrational 3y agoHonestly, that looks like a random string of letters strung together to me. If it is a name, I don’t recognize the provenance.
- croisillon 3y agothe "crnj" part might remind you of Chernobyl
- karaterobot 3y agoAll you have to do is enter the username into Google Translate and it will make sense.
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoI do not know your language, but at least in Polish the translation makes some sense. They have the word "czarny" which means "black". "czarny kot" is "black cat", "on jest czarny" is "he is black". The latter is purely descriptive. There is also the word "czarnuch" which is the VERY offensive word for Blacks, best translated by "negro". Now, the last name "Czarnuch" is a normal last name, without any connotations to the color black (except probably in its etymology) and does not sound weird/offensive. The translation of this capitalized word would naturally yield "Negro".
- vjerancrnjak 3y agoCrnjak (tsr̩̂ɲak) has usages in Croatian language, one of them is "black" wine, the other is black joke. There might be a reference somewhere where it is used as a description of a person, but probably not in Croatian. I did notice Google Translate hallucinates words, some very amusing, when I translate from Any -> Croatian (this happens automatically when reading Google Maps place reviews). There has been quite a lot of words that naturally map to Croatian but there's no text (outside of blogspam) that uses it on the Internet.