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Boo Seta Apr 4, 2014 @ 6:59am

"Ku" pronunciation = "anus" pronunciation in Portuguese

The sound of the pronunciation of "Ku" is exactly the same as the pronunciation of a pejorative way of saying "anus" in Portuguese. Just to let you know that almost 1 billion native Portuguese speakers around the world read this game name and laugh.

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Boo Seta Apr 4, 2014 @ 7:09am

ps: I don't know why Steam blacklist the word "anus", since it's not a dirty word, it's just an anatomical part of our body. Everybody has a hole by which we expel feces.

Wavioli [developer] May 12, 2014 @ 3:24am

yep, we're well aware of that, thanks. Cant please all the people all the time! (Ku is based on a mythical figure from Ireland, Cú Chulainn - which I believe is the ACTUAL spelling of the word you refer to!)

Boo Seta May 12, 2014 @ 7:26pm

hahahahaha that's sufficiently near the actual spelling.

Areso

May 27, 2014 @ 10:17am

Nokia Lumia also has interesting meaning ;) in Spanish...

Boo Seta May 27, 2014 @ 12:09pm

Originally posted by Areso:
Nokia Lumia also has interesting meaning ;) in Spanish...

hahahahaha true.

RayoSombrio Nov 2, 2014 @ 3:29am

The dev is right. Many words have a funny translation in other languages and it's near impossible to avoid this fact.

Boo Seta Nov 2, 2014 @ 7:15am

Originally posted by RayoSombrio:
The dev is right. Many words have a funny translation in other languages and it's near impossible to avoid this fact.

It's perfectly avoidable, you just have to check for the 4 or 5 most spoken languages around the world before releasing a title. A phonetic dictionary or a dictionary with "close words" could be used to check pronunciation too. It would take less than 10 minutes.

But I'm glad they didn't do it hahahaha

RayoSombrio Nov 2, 2014 @ 8:17am

Originally posted by Revernus:
Originally posted by RayoSombrio:
The dev is right. Many words have a funny translation in other languages and it's near impossible to avoid this fact.

It's perfectly avoidable, you just have to check for the 4 or 5 most spoken languages around the world before releasing a title. A phonetic dictionary or a dictionary with "close words" could be used to check pronunciation too. It would take less than 10 minutes.

But I'm glad they didn't do it hahahaha

Anyway, they are using a word that is part of irish folk tradition. I don't think they should change the word just for that. Think about the football player Kaká...isn't that name funny? At least it sounds like ♥♥♥♥ for many countries.