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If you count Google as an appropriation of Googol, surely Nvidia appropriates Invidia?

• nilamo 3mo ago
  Those are different though? At no point in that sentence was I confused about which word meant what. Unlike Amazonian datacenters deep in the Amazon's Amazon.
• em3rgent0rdr 3mo ago
  Nah. "Google" is pronounced the same as the English word "Googol", so I do consider it appropriating. Meanwhile, Invidia is a latin word, which as a dead language, and it is pronounced differently from "Nvidia", so I don't consider that the same as appropriating a living language word.
  • ButlerianJihad 3mo ago
    "invidia" is an Italian word, so it does survive in living languages. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invidia https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invidia "Nvidia" as "officially" pronounced in English is not significantly different from some of those pronunciations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia And the founders seemed to be well aware of the existing usage when they chose the name.