Roman Stanek

Skrbl

In Czech on May 7, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Vowel deficiency makes the Czech language a perfect source for Web 2.0 startup names. I wrote about it last summer but here comes another example: the name of online whiteboard tool Skrbl is just a shorter version of Czech Skrblik and it can be translated as miser, niggard, skinflint or Scrooge.

  1. I miss K at the end, so it could be a “miser”. Now it’s much more as “skinflin” :-)