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Pirueta is not lollipop in Spanish, it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish). Piruetas is pirouette, as in what a ice skater might do.
by edu 5mo ago
Pirueta is not lollipop in Spanish, it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish).
Piruetas is pirouette, as in what a ice skater might do.
- rustyhancock 5mo agoThat's a lucky escape. For some reason car manufacturers have this issue Mitsubishi Pajero (renamed in Spain). Ford Pinto (renamed in Brazil). Toyota MR2 (renamed in France although slightly different issue). Honda Fitta (renamed in Scandi countries)
- yomismoaqui 5mo agoThat's where LLMs with web search enabled help to check for dangerous project names in other languages.
- latexr 5mo agoYou don’t need LLMs for this (or most things suggested in HN comments). http://wordsafety.com/ http://wordsafety.com/ has existed for years.
- sdeframond 5mo agoThey don't have "etron" thought, which might explain some poor naming by Audi ?
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- roscas 5mo agoHyundai Kona (renamed in Portugal to Kauai)
- mejutoco 5mo agoI would like to add Nissan Moco (snot/mucus in Spanish) to that list.
- pezezin 5mo agoBut the Moco is only sold in Japan, and in Japanese it means "fluffy", a funny name for a car but not a huge deal. I still laugh every time I see one though, which is almost every day...
- patillacode 5mo agoThe funny thing is that I am Spanish, and I tricked myself because we discussed between "piruletas" and "piruetas", and I had the message prepared before the name change, my bad.
- nextaccountic 5mo agoWell "piruetas" works in Portuguese too
- embedding-shape 5mo ago> it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish). In Spain Spanish I never heard them called anything else than "chupachup" (regardless of brand), guess it's a bit of a "Kleenex/facial tissue" syndrome going on there.
- patillacode 5mo agoWhat about the classic heart-shaped bright red "piruleta" from the "fiesta" brand?
- pfortuny 5mo agoThat's a piruleta. The spherical ones are chupa-chups.
- edu 5mo agoWell, we would refer to chupa-chups (brand) to the ones with a ball head. And Kojaks if they had gum inside. Piruletas were the flat ones, either circular or heart shaped.