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Adidas = Adi Dassler
by davycro 6y ago
Adidas = Adi Dassler
- netsharc 6y agoThis doesn't belong in the category, since it's obviously a name. If it were called "Running Shoes" because the company founder was named "Running", then it would belong..
- jefftk 6y agoIt wasn't obviously a name to me. Next you'll say Nike is a name!
- lmm 6y agoNot sure if you were trying to make a joke, but Nike is the Greek goddess of victory.
- 83457 6y agoWhat a coincidence!
- netsharc 6y agoWhat's "Adidas" to you then? the examples show nouns or adjectives that turn out to be the inventor's name (like PageRank, you think it's from "web pages", but oh, it's from "Larry Page", or "Main Street", where you think it's because it's the primary street, but oh, it's actually named after a Mr. Main). So what noun or adjective is "Adidas"? I'm going to complain about being downvoted and I'm gonna grumpily say even HN isn't immune to anti-intellectualism...
- jefftk 6y agoI had thought both Adidas and Nike were made up words, like Kodak.
- Cogito 6y agoIt doesn't belong in the same way that Debian doesn't. The good ones in the list are good because they are not obviously a name of a person, the name of the thing makes sense independently to it being named after a person. "Lake Mountain" could easily be named that because it is a mountain with a lake, so it is interesting that Lake Mountain is named after someone named Lake; Adidas and Debian are unexpected simply because they don't look like the name of a person, or anything else!