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harvey9 21 hours ago

Reminds me of Microsoft OneCare which sounds like saying 'wanker' with a slight French accent

lucb1e 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Claude sounds like bollocks in Dutch ('kloot')

Pretty sure bollocks was the literal example I read on HN like 10 years ago of what your cool-sounding product name will turn out to mean in Spanish, but I can't remember if the moral of the story was to check every language or to just accept it because it'll happen anyway

Anyway, the various tech podcasts caught on after a few episodes and seem to now pronounce it more foreignly, so it's now more like clod