Re: Announcement: The birth of Ophal Project

[Paul Hudson <phudson@...>]

(I don't think the name needs changing but)

I would be surprised if that dictionary (or a service offering that
check) doesn't exist since companies choosing brand or product names
must have this issue too. The service probably costs though

On 18/08/2011, Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 17/08/2011 12:20, Lee Hickey wrote:
>> And one minor point - you might want to reconsider the name. When I, as
>> a native English speaker, read it, I read it as offal.
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal)
>
> I think it is hard to come with a name that hasn't a negative sense in
> one language or the other... :-)
> For example, to remain on this vein, if you name your software Trip, I
> might complain it sounds too much like French's "tripes", which means
> guts (also in the culinary sense).
>
> Perhaps one should make a phonetic dictionary of negative (short) words
> (crap, hell, etc.) in most major languages... But given the number of
> argot synonyms of such words, it would be a big work! ^_^'
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