Re: Cheesy

[Gora Mohanty <gora sarai net>]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:09 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
[...]
> Translating the cheese package, my friend raised a question:
> what does "cheesy" in "A cheesy program to take photos ..." mean?
> It looks like cheese, or it's of poor quality, or it tends to cause
> smiles like when saying "cheese"?
[...]

"Cheesy" generally means of poor quality. Here, it is most
likely being used tongue-in-cheek, and is also a pun on the
name of the package. This is difficult to translate, but
I think that the closest equivalent would be "fun program...",
or "not-so-important program...".

Regards,
Gora