Budzy

Oi Flickr!, In English, Japanese or Sinhalese? This brought a smile to my face. I like Flickr greeting me in different languages when I sign in. But shouldn’t we be more careful in deploying things like this in internationally used applications? “Oi” seem to have a similar meaning to English in a lot of other languages, but in Japanese or Sinhalese it’s a very offensive way of calling someone.

Hey, I know it’s no big deal and you’re in “gamma”, but my farther wouldn’t stand me calling him “Oi” and I had to post something :D

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