Show HN: WordSafety – check if a name means something dirty in foreign languages

[pavlov]

http://wordsafety.com

[subject4056]

This doesn't appear to recognize certain common latinizations. For example, splitting ö int oe, as in "Foetzen". If you intend to commercialize this, you might want to invest some effort into that.

[pavlov → subject4056]

Actually it does handle alternative umlaut spellings, but that word was missing. Thanks for the addition :)

[pavlov]

There was a thread a couple of days ago about a project whose name happened to mean something dirty in an obsure language:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10072472

I suggested a site for looking up these unwanted associations, and someone told me to build one. So here it is!