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That is more difficult than it may appear. Sometimes you need people that are pretty immersed in a culture to know about these things and avoid shooting yourse
by disconnected 8y ago
That is more difficult than it may appear.
Sometimes you need people that are pretty immersed in a culture to know about these things and avoid shooting yourself in the foot.
Hyundai, for example, almost made the mistake of releasing a vehicle named Kona in Portugal.
Kona is a pretty harmless word in most contexts, but "kona" reads exactly like "cona" for a Portuguese speaker, and "cona" is slag for "vagina".
Oops.
They renamed it Kauai for the Portuguese market, IIRC.