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To a French speaker, the car "Audi e-tron" may also sound weird, given that étron means "turd". Yet it is marketed that way. Perhaps people start to make piece
by nh2 6y ago
To a French speaker, the car "Audi e-tron" may also sound weird, given that étron means "turd". Yet it is marketed that way.
Perhaps people start to make piece with the fact that some words come from other languages, and that one doesn't have to search for the insult in every crevice.
- dbrgn 6y agoThere are more examples. Mitsubishi Pajero is called Mitsubishi Montero in some spanish-speaking countries since Pajero means "wanker". In Switzerland, Nestlé rebranded their "Fuze Tea" to "Fuse Tea" since if you pronounce it in Swiss German it sounds like "cunt tea". The website generator "Wix" just went ahead with their name (which means "to wank" in German) and actually made some pretty nice ambiguous/suggestive German "banned ads" about it.
- chayleaf 6y agoThe Japanese word for "like" is the same as the Russian word for "bitches"
- pezezin 6y agoNot exactly, the Japanese word for "to like" is "suki", and there is also "soka" that means "I see". The Russian word for bitches is "suka". But yeah, I was confused at first when I started to live in Japan; they sound very similar, and even though I don't speak Russian, "suka blyat" is basic game slang nowadays.