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by Zecc 908 days ago
FWIW, "chata" in Portuguese means something like "boring" and "annoying". But at least it's not vulgar or obscene.

Naming for an international audience is hard.

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In Argentina the portable toilets used by people lying in bed are called chata. Also pickup trucks.
It's a house, or a cottage specifically, in Polish. Fun fact is it uses ch digraph, which is for "unvoiced h" and how we spell both ch and h these days. Naming is hard.
I ignored the post at first because chata is so close tp chat and I though this is yet another one of those llm based "languages".
In Dominican Spanish, "chi chi" just means "baby" while it means something horrible elsewhere. And I would say a similar idea might be true here too considering where "chata" came from.
It reminded me of orxata, which now gives me a craving