05/05/09 - 8 Disastrous Product Names
Posted: 05 May 2009, 10:46
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Please stop it! Please!!eotunun wrote:Ohh.. my..!
There are way too good translation issues with names.
For example: Rolls Royce wanted to name a model "~Silver Mist~"
Have you ever really seen a Rolls Royce Silver Mist?
A friend who came back from Canada gave a BBQ-Party. He offered us Beer, various soft drinks amongst which there was:
The name of that stuff is pronounced *exactly* the same as the german term "Spritz ab", an imperative of "abspritzen", a most colloquial expression like shooting sperm, firing the cannon etc...
... wonder 'bout the taste of it ...eotunun wrote:Ohh.. my..!
There are way too good translation issues with names.
For example: Rolls Royce wanted to name a model "~Silver Mist~"
Have you ever really seen a Rolls Royce Silver Mist?
A friend who came back from Canada gave a BBQ-Party. He offered us Beer, various soft drinks amongst which there was:
The name of that stuff is pronounced *exactly* the same as the german term "Spritz ab", an imperative of "abspritzen", a most colloquial expression like shooting sperm, firing the cannon etc...
Being645 wrote:... wonder 'bout the taste of it ...eotunun wrote:Ohh.. my..!
There are way too good translation issues with names.
For example: Rolls Royce wanted to name a model "~Silver Mist~"
Have you ever really seen a Rolls Royce Silver Mist?
A friend who came back from Canada gave a BBQ-Party. He offered us Beer, various soft drinks amongst which there was:
The name of that stuff is pronounced *exactly* the same as the german term "Spritz ab", an imperative of "abspritzen", a most colloquial expression like shooting sperm, firing the cannon etc...
..no, no, no, no, no.. I don´t wanna see anything like that or drink that! Never ever! No!Being645 wrote: ... never judge about anything before giving it a try ....
... unless you see there're corpses on the carpet already ...
not if there's too much sugar in it ...Moakahontas wrote:..no, no, no, no, no.. I don´t wanna see anything like that or drink that! Never ever! No!Being645 wrote: ... never judge about anything before giving it a try ....
... unless you see there're corpses on the carpet already ...
Checking for any response to the crap but funny Scottish joke I posted a few weeks agoJames Blast wrote:Mr. S what the hell are you doing in here!?