[wubbfindel]

https://medium.com/glitch/welcome-to-glitch-fe161d0fc39b#.ef...

"Why did we change the name (again)? Well, we heard from some members of our community that the old name evokes a hurtful slur in some Russian communities, and given our deep commitment to building an inclusive service, that didn’t sit right with us, even though people understand we didn’t mean to be hurtful."

[jerf]

I would be intrigued to see a database of, say, the top 10 or 25 languages in the world, and all their potentially offensive phrases. It would be useful to help avoid this sort of thing, and probably have some interesting things to say about linguistics and psychology.

[scoot]

http://wordsafety.com was posted on HN a couple of years ago.

It doesn't detect "gomix" though, which is odd, as I submitted it when gomix.com was launched and the naming snafu was mentioned here.

Edit: having tried variations on some common English words, I can see why not - the phonetic matching seems pretty poor. I wonder what algorithm they're using?

[jerf]

Thank you.

[tkwj]

Relevant Twitter conversation https://twitter.com/deadprogrammer/status/806150295290052608