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It’s only bad if you aren’t used to it. When Japanese brands tried to break into automotive world, they sounded weird too. Xiomi and Hiawei don’t sound too diff
by YeBanKo 3y ago
It’s only bad if you aren’t used to it. When Japanese brands tried to break into automotive world, they sounded weird too. Xiomi and Hiawei don’t sound too different to Samsung and Nokia these days.
- fyrn_ 3y agoYou kind of proved GP's point by misspelling both names. They are Xiaomi and Huawei. The fact that you misspelled them isn't surprising, as both have "foreign" spellings compared with the Japanese brands like Toyota, Honda, Nissan. X is rarely used in English, and they have paired and less common vowel pairs. Both are also not pronounced phonetically, which is also true of the the Japanese brands but the approximation is arguably closer for them. Certainly for some of the brands sounding like Amazon 3rd-party re-resellers is a big mark against them.
- YeBanKo 3y agoLol you overanalyzed it. I fat-fingered in mobile. U is next to i and unlike Nissan or Toyota, my swipe keyboard does not recognize Huawei yet.