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Apple (AAPL) might have disappointed the hordes dying to get their hands on
an iPhone 5 when it announced the new iPhone 4S on Tuesday, but the company
still managed to impress them with new apps.
Particularly impressive is Siri, Apple's new voice-command app that lets you
talk to your iPhone. Need to know how bad traffic is in your area? Just ask
the phone and Siri will give you real-time data on traffic outside.
However, Apple forgot the cardinal rule of language-based technology: If you
build it, your audience is going to make lewd jokes with it. And Apple's ne
w app made it all too easy for people to turn it into a joke, considering wh
at Siri sounds like in Japanese. Here's a hint: The iPhone 4S almost certain
ly will be Sir Mix-a-Lot's favorite smartphone.
To the Japanese, the name Siri sounds almost identical to 尻, pronounced shi
ri. Shiri is a colloquialism for -- in the politest possible sense -- buttoc
ks. Its proper usage, however, is crude. As Yoree Koh of The Wall Street Jou
rnal put it, the comparable term in English rhymes with "crass." Compliments
for Apple's major new technology, likely to be the focus of marketing campa
igns across the world, will make the speaker sound like a cat-calling constr
uction worker in Japan.
Shortly after Siri was announced, both "Siri" and "shiri" became trending to
pics on Twitter in Japan. Google Japan searches for Apple's new voice-recogn
ition software had the search engine asking users if they actually were look
ing for "shiri," and it isn't difficult to imagine what the image search ret
urned on those queries. | S******x
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: http://money.msn.com/ways-to-invest/article.aspx?post=997fbbc3-
: Apple (AAPL) might have disappointed the hordes dying to get their hands on
: an iPhone 5 when it announced the new iPhone 4S on Tuesday, but the company
: still managed to impress them with new apps.
: Particularly impressive is Siri, Apple's new voice-command app that lets you
: talk to your iPhone. Need to know how bad traffic is in your area? Just ask
: the phone and Siri will give you real-time data on traffic outside.
: However, Apple forgot the cardinal rule of language-based technology: If you
: build it, your audience is going to make lewd jokes with it. And Apple's ne
: w app made it all too easy for people to turn it into a joke, considering wh
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