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by 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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And in Brazilian Portuguese it is read the same way as a slang for penis
In Polish "kacet" literally means what @jcattle mentioned - a phonetic loanword from German.
Unfortunately, that's the first thing that comes to my mind when I see the name.
Ouch, we chose the name because we thought it had no meaning. I
In Brazil it means "dick".
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.
oops haha