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Comment by timje1 | Hacker News Reader

Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.

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Ufuk Uras is also Turkish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufuk_Uras

AFAIK it might be more common than you think. I have a female friend who's firstname is Fanny and another one who's lastname is Cocq. They both expect a few laugh when they introduce themselves in english speaking countries.

Dick is a english name. I don't see the problem.

My last name is koc (turkish..) and it's funny to observe english speaking people trying not to spell it like "cock".

Most English speakers would not know that the sound of 'c' in the Turkish alphabet is closer to the 'j' in 'joy'. The presence of the alphabet 'ç' also adds to more confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_alphabet#Sounds

But wouldn't Koc be pronounced something like "Kodj"?

more like /koCH/

In Edinburgh there is "Cockburn Street", which is pronounced "Co-burn":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockburn_Street,_Edinburgh

(Also the Cockburn Association.)

Irresistibly reminded of http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/we-all-feel-like-that-n... . Apologies.

Flikr originally had a hard core community of a certain demographic in the Netherlands.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Flikker

The 'kut' part in 'orkut' means pussy (as in vagina) in Dutch. It was always clear to me from the get go why orkut wouldn't succeed in the Netherlands.

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