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In russian, "sisi" is a variation of "tits". Is there a job/services that confirm that branding is appropriate across different languages? Seems like a non tri
by ivanjermakov 2y ago
In russian, "sisi" is a variation of "tits".
Is there a job/services that confirm that branding is appropriate across different languages? Seems like a non trivial problem to solve.
- phito 2y agoIt's definitely not a good name in English either
- zcbenz 2y agoThat is sad, the name sisi comes from the sisi empress: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria
- rlpb 2y agoSounds like something one might try to train an AI to do :)
- bjord 2y agoit's also the name of egypt's authoritarian leader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi
- jollyllama 2y agoYes this is the first thing that came to mind for me, strange name choice
- fkyoureadthedoc 2y agoEven if that was the intent, which it almost certainly isn't, why would it be strange enough to warrant discussion?
- jollyllama 2y agoAs an American who monitors world affairs, the choice of a quasi-authoritarian junta leader as a name would be quite novel.
- philsnow 2y agoIn cantonese it’s what a toddler might call poop
- Narhem 2y agoA lot of the prodemently used programming languages and libraries have references to feces if you speak Farsi.
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- kristopolous 2y agoI read about a company in the 1990s that did that. They went one step further - picking culturally appropriate colors, shapes, numbers, and then permuting the brand names to favorable variations for a country. My (probably wrong) 25 year old recollection was when they introduced subway in China they basically found a way to pronounce it that translated to "this place is delicious". I bet it was in Wired. If not that, probably New York Magazine.
- visarga 2y ago> Seems like a non trivial problem to solve. Took me 5 minutes to land this GPT prompt. https://chatgpt.com/share/66e84c0c-a92c-800a-b452-255d6fe9423b https://chatgpt.com/share/66e84c0c-a92c-800a-b452-255d6fe942... Results: - Chinese (Simplified) 四四 (sì sì) – sounds like "four-four", which can be associated with bad luck due to the number four in Chinese culture - Arabic "Sisi" is a common nickname, also associated with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi - Russian Сиси (sisi) – slang for breasts - Bulgarian Сиси (sisi) – slang for breasts - Serbian Сиси (sisi) – slang for breasts - Croatian Sisi – slang for breasts You should probably complement with a web search and a wiktionary search because they have all languages on a single page.
- pdimitar 2y agoDoes ChatGPT get anything right, ever? In Bulgarian the slang is Цици (tsi tsi). I imagine it's near-identical for many other Slavic languages.
- visarga 2y agoYeah I noticed it was pretty shaky, change the prompt a bit and the result changes a lot. Not very reliable after all by itself, but used in conjunction with other methods.
- fedeb95 2y agothat's a nice start, maybe does 99% of the job, but to be 100% sure, you still need additional (manual?) checks.
- ivanjermakov 2y agoCool LLM application! Might not be enough though.
- sureIy 2y agoIt’s not that straightforward due to spelling. Does that catch køk? Tihts? P. Nus? For a non English swear word, I had to ask 3 times and about a specific language to finally make that connection.
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- kgeist 2y agoNot as bad as the Pidora project https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1...