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Kal means feces in Russian. >Naming things is hard enough already without trying to cover what it might sound like in every major language. IMO, when you give
by solomatov 13y ago
Kal means feces in Russian.
>Naming things is hard enough already without trying to cover what it might sound like in every major language.
IMO, when you give a name to internationally used thing, this should be taken care of. I.e. name shouldn't sound funny obscene in any of the major languages.
- teebrz 13y agoI think most Russian-speaking programmers are intelligent enough to understand it's a foreign name, especially since it's written as "kal" and not "кал". > I.e. name shouldn't sound funny obscene in any of the major languages. My point is that this is probably more difficult than you realize. It's also pointless; if you're the maker of a consumer product (like a soda) and you expect to market it in Russian-speaking countries, then of course you need to watch out for such things. Something like this which is only incidentally used by a small portion of technically literate Russian speakers - it's not really worth bothering with.