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That model name does not look good in French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythomanie https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythomanie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

That model name does not look good in French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythomanie https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythomanie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_lying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_lying ).

pu_pe 6mo ago
The English word for it is similar too (Mythomaniac)
- gs17 6mo ago
  I think most English speakers who recognize it will think of it as meaning a collection of myths, as in the "Cthulhu Mythos".
futurecat 6mo ago
absolutely. Also doesn't help that the slang for Mythomanie is the short form "mytho".
aiwlwlttok 6mo ago
it's greek you peasants
- Kye 6mo ago
  Yeah I'm confused by the comments here. "a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristic or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture" (Merriam-Webster) This doesn't seem obscure to me. It's what a model encodes in its weights. Am I falling into the xkcd 2501 trap?
fakedang 6mo ago
Why is it that in every thread of a newly released product, there's always some European popping by, just to say, "Oh, but the name doesn't sound appropriate in _my language_"? Suck it up Yurop, or make your own. And imo, Mythos is a much better name than the kind of shit Mistral seems to come up with.
- sdeframond 6mo ago
  Heehee, I'm still laughing about the Audi e-tron ^^
- 1attice 6mo ago
  Generalizing, generations of Europeans have been trained to hunt for these mistakes, in both their own writing and thinking and elsewhere, as they telegraph ignorance and open markets to competition. It is standard in multilingual regions to consider multiple languages during product naming; to do otherwise is often considered humiliating. You can bet your nut that "Mistral" was sounded out in more languages than "Cat, I farted" ever was. Here are a couple of particularly famous fsckups: - the Rolls Royce Silver Mist didn't sell well in Germany for some reason (coughs) - the Chevy Nova didn't sell well in Spanish countries, again, seemingly for no reason (cackles)
  - shmeeed 6mo ago
    That list is sorely lacking the Mitsubishi Pajero. Still my favorite of 'em all.

pu_pe 6mo ago

The English word for it is similar too (Mythomaniac)

gs17 6mo ago
I think most English speakers who recognize it will think of it as meaning a collection of myths, as in the "Cthulhu Mythos".

futurecat 6mo ago

absolutely. Also doesn't help that the slang for Mythomanie is the short form "mytho".

aiwlwlttok 6mo ago

it's greek you peasants

Kye 6mo ago
Yeah I'm confused by the comments here. "a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristic or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture" (Merriam-Webster) This doesn't seem obscure to me. It's what a model encodes in its weights. Am I falling into the xkcd 2501 trap?

fakedang 6mo ago

Why is it that in every thread of a newly released product, there's always some European popping by, just to say, "Oh, but the name doesn't sound appropriate in _my language_"? Suck it up Yurop, or make your own. And imo, Mythos is a much better name than the kind of shit Mistral seems to come up with.

sdeframond 6mo ago
Heehee, I'm still laughing about the Audi e-tron ^^
1attice 6mo ago
Generalizing, generations of Europeans have been trained to hunt for these mistakes, in both their own writing and thinking and elsewhere, as they telegraph ignorance and open markets to competition. It is standard in multilingual regions to consider multiple languages during product naming; to do otherwise is often considered humiliating. You can bet your nut that "Mistral" was sounded out in more languages than "Cat, I farted" ever was. Here are a couple of particularly famous fsckups: - the Rolls Royce Silver Mist didn't sell well in Germany for some reason (coughs) - the Chevy Nova didn't sell well in Spanish countries, again, seemingly for no reason (cackles)
- shmeeed 6mo ago
  That list is sorely lacking the Mitsubishi Pajero. Still my favorite of 'em all.