Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker"

http://www.wordmagicsoft.com/dictionary/es-en/lumia.php

by ajpatel • 15 years ago

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hkmurakami• 15 years ago

Well, "Siri" means "butt" in Japanese as you must all know now, and I know for a fact that Apple has many Japanese engineers in its HQ. That alone won't stop a clueless brand name from going public.

sathishmanohar• 15 years ago

Randy = hooker in Hindi, that will not make Randy Ortan change his name :D

From a land of gazillion languages (India), I can tell ya, this is inevitable.

CWIZO• 15 years ago

I've said this here before: Kuga (Ford's SUV) in Slovenian means bubonic plague. And it seems that does not stop people buying them here :) And I, for one, would gladly say "let me check with my hooker if I'm free tomorrow" :)

eLobato2• 15 years ago

EDIT: It looks that some dictionaries on the internet use Lumia and Lumias as the equivalent in Spanish for prostituta. I can guarantee (being Spaniard born and raised and having spoken in Spanish with people from literally any spanish-speaking country) that people use Lumi or Lumis in very, very rare occasions. Lumia is even weirder (I just learnt it to be honest) and I dont really understand why the dictionary only includes Lumia. (rae.es). Honestly I think that that word will be removed from the dictionary sooner than later.

I am sorry to say this but the entry is wrong :( Lumi = hooker. Lumia doesn't mean anything in Spanish. Actually most of the spanish speakers I met don't even know that Lumi = hooker (I have one cousin called Lumi and no one noticed until she was in her early 20s...)

Anyway it probably means something funny in other languages :p

old_sound• 15 years ago

As being from Uruguay and having spoke with native spanish speakers from all over this is the first time I heard that word too. Also I like to read quite a lot. I even did a google image search for the word… nothing NSFW popped up.

bep• 15 years ago

I haven't hear that version of prostitute ever, and I'm from Colombia, and live there.

jvilalta• 15 years ago

Same here. I have spoken spanish all my life and constantly read books written by spanish speakers from all over the world and have never come across this word before.

dguaraglia• 15 years ago

pseudo-Argie here (grew up and lived there for ~23 years), never heard the word.

ebrenes• 15 years ago

From Costa Rica here and no one in my office has even heard of that being a spanish word.

m1nes• 15 years ago

I am Spaniard too and agree with what you say. If you search on a dictionary, lumia is indeed a word for 'Prostitute', but in some places of spain is used as an affectionate word.

In fact, my granddaddy used to call my small sister 'Lumia', which in north of Spain could be used as a familiar substitute for 'Rascal'.

ProCynic• 15 years ago

El Chevy no va.

sabret00the• 15 years ago

Well to be fair, Nokia did whore itself out some.

ergodic• 15 years ago

Well... Suzuki did change the name of their "Suzuki Wanker" (Suzuki Pajero) in Spain. It depends...

eLobato2• 15 years ago

No they didnt. I have seen many Mitsubishi Pajero in Spain and its so funny haha

Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker"

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