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> (and playing on the "uneducated American" trope to boot That wasn't my intention I literally meant "never heard of" If you never heard of something, you're
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> (and playing on the "uneducated American" trope to boot
That wasn't my intention
I literally meant "never heard of"
If you never heard of something, you're not used to how it sounds.
The original poster criticized the branding before knowing the meaning, I explained the meaning and why it is not as bad as it may sounds to someone used to associate "oma" with cancer - which appears a lot in US pop culture, it's a cultural thing, I never implied ignorance -
It's the same thing of Gimp, but on the opposite side, I still pronounce it the Italian way with the soft G as in "jim" and it doesn't bother me, while it reminds pulp fiction's gimp to native speakers (also: I've watched the movie in original language years later it came out)
Finally, to be completely honest, being from Rome I am biased and everything that ends in "Roma" sounds nice to me, I see the name of my city, not the suffix "oma".