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Couldn't help but smile because "chato" in portuguese means "boring", and this seems very easy to set up and use.

Here's to more boring software! :)

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Personally I've always found it funny that the widely used work software is called Slack which is very close to slacking (not working hard enough).

That’s where the name comes from, no?

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I absolutely love boring software. It's a very, very rare quality nowadays.

In Spanish chato mean small, like a small nose (una nariz chata). In some contexts it can mean "dude".

chudo missed opportunity

Can also mean annoying. As a general recommnedation, before naming a project or company something, always search whether it means something bad in the top 10 most spoken languages.

For portuguese/spanish, there is always a high chance of being a slang that is NSFW


There's a Hyundai car whose name literally means "pussy" in Portuguese and Galician x) It's marketed as something else in those territories.


Don't forget the famous Mitsubishi Pajero (wanker)

And Toyota Venza which sound like "toilet seat" in... Japanese, of all languages...

Honda was originally planning to name a model "fitta" before they discovered what it meant for Swedes/Norwegians (same meaning as in your example)

I’m going to say Nova to that.

Also annoyed/angry/cross.



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