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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=...et_060210120222
HANOI (AFP) - A website seeking to advertise the humble grapefruit will not be permitted to register its name in Vietnamese because the word is spelt the same as penis.
We have to refuse the website name of www.buoi.com.vn because the word for grapefruit, buoi, without a proper tone marking can be misunderstood to mean penis, said Thai Huu Ly of the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre on Friday.
Vowels in written and printed Vietnamese incorporate elaborate markings indicating one of six pronunciation tones. But because website addresses carry no tone indications, confusion can arise.
The word is very sensitive so we will definitely refuse, he said.
According to Vietnamese regulations, names of websites must not contain words that violate the national interest or are not in accordance with social ethics, lifestyle and national culture.
I said to myself, are there any homonyms that might interfere with a word's ability to market itself through a website url? Then i realized the Korean word for pepper is homonym for the word that is Grapefruit in Vietnamese. That site didn't work either. ^_^;;
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wow, this is new to me lol..i highly doubt the word buoi means penis, unless it's from some specific region
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I'm Vietnamese and I never knew that the word penis could ever sound like buoi in anyway.
This is weird
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^ not penis in english but in vietnamese.
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'kay kids, Vietnamese lesson time.
Bưởi = grape fruit
Buồi = penis--but it's really the english equivalent of cock since it's used as a slang, this word is used very rarely and mainly used in the city area like Saigon only.
I thought this is pretty stupid and funny at the same time. That idiot Thai Huu Ly, what a joke. This just confirms what my dad says about the Viet Cong being a bunch of illiterate morons.
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'kay kids, Vietnamese lesson time.
Bưởi = grape fruit
Buồi = penis--but it's really the english equivalent of cock since it's used as a slang, this word is used very rarely and mainly used in the city area like Saigon only.
Huhm, I was born and raised in Saigon, I've lived there for practically all my life and I never heard of such slang. Interesting
