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Why do people make products with names that they know they have to tell people how to pronounce? Why would you make marketing, stickiness, word of mouth etc an
by chadlavi 5y ago
Why do people make products with names that they know they have to tell people how to pronounce? Why would you make marketing, stickiness, word of mouth etc an uphill problem for yourself?
In my local accent "plover" has the same vowel as "over".
- DrOctagon 5y agoThink Danny Glover and that’s how most Australians would pronounce it.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoThey have these birds called Plovers in California and that's the pronunciation (puh-lover) I immediately went to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_golden_plover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_golden_plover
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- turtlebits 5y agoThere is a bird called a plover with the same pronunciation. I’m guessing this product is named after it.
- jonathankoren 5y agoI need to launch a product with an ambiguous pronunciation, and then “helpfully” suggest a heteronym as a guide.
- MaysonL 5y agoI heard three pronunciations of "Wacom" yesterday and I'm still not sure if there's an official one and if so, which it is (if it's not a fourth).
- sombremesa 5y agoNot really a good comparison (if we're talking about choosing a pronounceable name when incorporating) because the pronunciation is not at all ambiguous* (ワコム) in the original language, and the country it was founded in mostly uses that language. * - while the ワコム part is not ambiguous, you can technically choose to pronounce the rest of the word (株式会社) differently - since these characters have multiple pronunciations - though choosing to do that would be considered a very strange thing to do in this context, since its otherwise got a standard pronunciation.
- edm0nd 5y agoProbably because the people making the products are developers and not concerned about or aware of such things.
- pony_sheared 5y agoDevelopers, rhymes with interlopers