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jcattle
151 days ago
In German you'd probably pronounce your company KZ, short for Concentration Camp (Konzentrationslager).
Not ideal, but I guess internationally it's less of an issue :)
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rhoads
151 days ago
And in Brazilian Portuguese it is read the same way as a slang for penis
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thompson2908
151 days ago
In Polish "kacet" literally means what @jcattle mentioned - a phonetic loanword from German.
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postepowanieadm
151 days ago
Unfortunately, that's the first thing that comes to my mind when I see the name.
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wrux
151 days ago
Ouch, we chose the name because we thought it had no meaning. I
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brazukadev
151 days ago
In Brazil it means "dick".
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wrux
151 days ago
It's a good job it's pronounced differently to cacete. The guy that designed the logo is from Brazil and he did mention that.
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dclarke26
151 days ago
oops haha
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