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German people writing iOS software must be having a hard time then. Seriously, even in the context of cultural sensitivity, this seems pretty silly to me. Real
by benched 13y ago
German people writing iOS software must be having a hard time then.
Seriously, even in the context of cultural sensitivity, this seems pretty silly to me. Really? National Socialism gets to own the letters NS for the rest of time? I mean, if it's an objective fact that Germans get upset by those letters, then I guess that just is. I still can't remember ever hearing of anyone being upset about letters that could stand for something else before. There aren't really that many letters, so I'm not sure how feasible it is to restrict two-letter combinations.
- sentenza 13y agoI've taken my time to ponder this because there really is a problem with getting this point across. I do not know of any other language where two letter combinations are connotated this heavily. Sure, there are some that are mildly weird/inappropriate, such as for instance FU in English, but nothing compared to these three in German (I stupidly forgot one in the previous post). I think I've come up with a way of explaining how heavy the connotation is. So again, these are the abbreviations: NS is bad, quite worse than any comparable thing in English (but not bad enough for Apple to drown in boycott mails, as you noted). SS is significantly worse than that. Have those two uppercase letters together (better yet, standing freely together) and there is nobody raised in Germany who will not immediately think of the SS and/or death camps. KZ is the worst. This one is an immediate, unconditional full stop. Now here comes the comparison: Putting that in your product name is _exactly_ the same level of horrible as using the word pedophile in your product name. That is the level of connotation we are talking about here. I hope this helps somebody.