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This will be extremely confusing for Japanese and Korean speakers.
by ttul 8y ago
This will be extremely confusing for Japanese and Korean speakers.
- borplk 8y agoThis will be extremely confusing for anyone.
- deesix 8y agoDisclosure: I work on GCP Thanks for highlighting. We were aware of this and working with the local sales teams to make it as easy as possible.
- vasco 8y agoEven if the products are for different types of customers all of them will still need to click the right one.
- yongjik 8y agoActually, not that much for Korean speakers, because "file" becomes "pa-il" and "fire" becomes "pa-i-eo". (Damn English triphthongs...) Hopefully they won't launch Cloud Pyrestore any time soon...
- lioeters 8y agoSimilarly for Japanese, "file" is pronounced/written as "fairu" and "fire" as "faiyaa". If the service docs are translated, then they would look like (and sound as) difference names.
- nerpderp83 8y agoBy the heat of the fire, and play their songs from LyreStore. Floating plastic would go in the GyreStore. If you had a bunch muck it would go in MireStore.
- cellularmitosis 8y agoI think its worth adding some additional phonetic context around this remark (I made a similar remark and my coworkers thought I was making a racist joke). The reason native Japanese speakers struggle with "R" and "L" sounds is because they just have one phoneme to work with, which sounds (to a native English speaker) like a combination of "R", "L", and "D". If you aren't exposed to phonemes at a young age, it is difficult to expand your set later in life. An analogous difficulty might exist for English speakers if a Chinese company came up with two product names which used the exact same sequence of syllables, but had "tonal" differences in pronunciation.