http://roman.stanek.org BI, SaaS, travel and everything else... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:35:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/a284353698342232cb5027d4fe3ee674?s=96&d=http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://roman.stanek.org http://roman.stanek.org/2008/05/07/skrbl/ http://roman.stanek.org/2008/05/07/skrbl/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 11:59:26 +0000 Roman Stanek http://romanstanek.wordpress.com/?p=112 ]]> 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.

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