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edu 9 hours ago

Pirueta is not lollipop in Spanish, it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish).

Piruetas is pirouette, as in what a ice skater might do.

embedding-shape 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> it would be “piruletas” (at least in Spain Spanish).

In Spain Spanish I never heard them called anything else than "chupachup" (regardless of brand), guess it's a bit of a "Kleenex/facial tissue" syndrome going on there.

edu 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, we would refer to chupa-chups (brand) to the ones with a ball head. And Kojaks if they had gum inside.

Piruletas were the flat ones, either circular or heart shaped.

patillacode 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What about the classic heart-shaped bright red "piruleta" from the "fiesta" brand?

pfortuny 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That's a piruleta. The spherical ones are chupa-chups.

patillacode 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The funny thing is that I am Spanish, and I tricked myself because we discussed between "piruletas" and "piruetas", and I had the message prepared before the name change, my bad.

rustyhancock 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's a lucky escape.

For some reason car manufacturers have this issue

Mitsubishi Pajero (renamed in Spain).

Ford Pinto (renamed in Brazil).

Toyota MR2 (renamed in France although slightly different issue).

Honda Fitta (renamed in Scandi countries)

mejutoco 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would like to add Nissan Moco (snot/mucus in Spanish) to that list.

yomismoaqui 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's where LLMs with web search enabled help to check for dangerous project names in other languages.

latexr 9 hours ago | parent [-]

You don’t need LLMs for this (or most things suggested in HN comments). http://wordsafety.com/ has existed for years.

sdeframond 9 hours ago | parent [-]

They don't have "etron" thought, which might explain some poor naming by Audi ?

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roscas 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hyundai Kona (renamed in Portugal to Kauai)