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Great name, uhm...

• danfitch 15y ago
  very austin powers ish
  • oldstrangers 15y ago
    Fukime? Nooo, fukiyu!
    • baddox 15y ago
      Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
• felipemnoa 15y ago
  I thought it was just me. At least they didn't use FukiU.
  • reinhardt 15y ago
    I thought they did this web2.0-ish thing of dropping a letter, specifically a 't' right after 'k'.
• 16s 15y ago
  Is it pronounced "fuk eye me" or "fuk eee me"???
  • palish 15y ago
    foo-kai-me.
    • Swizec 15y ago
      I definitely like this pronounciation.
    • Natsu 15y ago
      If it's supposed to be Japanese, it would be pronounced key, not kai. I'm not sure if it even means anything, though. GIS makes it appear that フキメ may have something to do with fishing lures, but it's not in my dictionary.
  • felipemnoa 15y ago
    Maybe the 'i' is silent?
  • aculver 15y ago
    If it's a transliteration of ふきめ then it's 'foo-key-meh'.
  • pwim 15y ago
    Following Japanese pronunciation rules, it would be fu-key-may (though like Heroku, it isn't a real Japanese word).
    • aculver 15y ago
      "mei" is "may". "me" is "meh". :)
    • sambeau 15y ago
      Heroku is a Glaswegian-Bovine greeting. Strickly speaking it should be Arighku.
      • troels 15y ago
        Who the heck is Glaswegian-Bovine?
        • sambeau 15y ago
          It's when the fine people of Glasgow (in Scotland) talk to cows.
          • troels 15y ago
            I see. Thanks for educating me.
• plusbryan 15y ago
  Their logo makes it even worse!
• CWIZO 15y ago
  It means "fuck me" (repeatedly) in Slovenian :) But I guess if Ford* can't be bothered to check it's car names that a small startup will be even less likely to do it. * Ford Kuga in Slovenian means Ford bubonic plague (http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Kuga http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Kuga) ...
  • petercooper 15y ago
    And the Toyota MR2 sounds like "shit" in French. They renamed it to the MR there :-)
    • CWIZO 15y ago
      Ha, funny you should mention that ... I used to own a MR2 :)