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wummsyesterday at 11:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

Sidenote: unlike in Tagalog, Kita means “day-care facility for children” in German, so names like Kita Capture and Kita Credit Agent could carry unintended connotations.


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kriskneztoday at 10:39 AM

In Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian, kita is a derogatory word...

andxortoday at 3:03 AM

Luckily Germany is not an emerging market :)

fakedangtoday at 9:19 AM

Since when did Germany victimize itself into emerging market category?

I would be even more worried by the fact that it resembles Keeta, a delivery brand owned by Meituan, which actually operates in a bunch of large emerging markets.

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