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Achmed Jones posted:i mean ok but there's a pretty material difference between "a racist story" and "a story where you laugh at people being dumb racists;" what i was responding to certainly seemed like it was being characterized as the former i seem to recall there was a small similar story where co ca co la translated to "bite the wax tadpole" in... singapore? idr
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I gotta step in and say that Chevy nova thing has been debunked extensively. there’s enough racism in the world without inventing it using 1990s chain emails as your source
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and I want an os that doesn’t require me to constantly janitor it. sorry, linux
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The Mitsubishi Pajero really did have to be renamed for the North American market due to translation issues.
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accents make the difference, nova has an accent on the first syllable, no va would be more strongly accented toward the va. sounds like a different word. would you not buy a diner table called “notable” because it had no table?
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ultrafilter posted:The Mitsubishi Pajero really did have to be renamed for the North American market due to translation issues. now the mitsubishi pendejo i would buy
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:accents make the difference, nova has an accent on the first syllable, no va would be more strongly accented toward the va. sounds like a different word. this is rather specious, because when it's written down and not pronounced you can put the accent wherever you want. "notable" is actually a word beyond the meanings of its interior words. nova isn't (well, it kind of is, 'nova' has its astronomical connotation in spanish, but that's rather a stretch). you can come up with a million things without being disingenuous about it. a bed called 'lumpybed', food called 'rottenchow', condoms called 'burnencock', just go nuts with it. like the only rule is that there can't be a common english-language word that's created by whatever funny words you mash together
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:accents make the difference, nova has an accent on the first syllable, no va would be more strongly accented toward the va. sounds like a different word. i was imagining this exact same scenario with a car named "nogo" and i don't think any english speaker could care less aside from the fact that it kinda seems like it could be a slur
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yeah, i do think "nobody would actually give a poo poo" is very likely true, at least it would be in 2023, the era of HAMPRINCE brand everything. maybe it wouldve been more of a thing in the eighties or whatever, but who freakin knows. like it's kiiiiinda worth noting that 'no va' makes more sense grammatically than 'no go' but...it's not like people go "omg im not gonna buy a toy yoda!" or whatever.
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people use/trust trojan condoms despite the meaning of the trojan horse
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anyway let's post some good tweets or toots itt
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https://twitter.com/zuza_real/status/1489354865600045056
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your best senior programmer writes a line or two of C per week (and a six paragraph comment with several ASCII art diagrams)
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I'm an extremely senior programmer because I write no lines of C at all
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Light Gun Man posted:is this a new version of that old thing I always heard about how they had to rename the Chevy Nova for Mexico because it would be interpreted as "no go"? I can only imagine this concept is flawed and or racist but boy I heard that story a lot as a kid. this is the more recent one I’ve heard, and it seems more believable: quote:Honda may have planned to use the name Fitta, and it was planned to be released in Japan under that name in 2001.[120] Because Fitta in Scandinavian languages is slang for vagina, Honda instead used Jazz in most markets and Fit in the Americas.
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the whole nova story presumes that people in latin america are incapable of seeing a word that doesn't exist in spanish and thinking 'huh must mean something in another language' even when that is exactly how americans would look at the word. nova means as little in spanish as it does in english. it makes about as much sense to make up a story that the car couldn't be sold in parts of the us because people would think no va meant it was illegal to drive the car in virginia
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I've known it was a bullshit story the first time I saw it since Novas have ALWAYS been desirable in the Lowrider scene. 
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that's dope
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ive got triples of the nova
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EricBauman posted:the whole nova story presumes that people in latin america are incapable of seeing a word that doesn't exist in spanish and thinking 'huh must mean something in another language' even when that is exactly how americans would look at the word. nova means as little in spanish as it does in english. You say that like there aren’t a lot of Americans dumb enough to avoid the Chevy Nogo
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Achmed Jones posted:M R 2 MR2 doesn't sound like "merde", it sounds like "merdeux" (shithead)
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Zlodo posted:MR2 doesn't sound like "merde", it sounds like "merdeux" (shithead) I did some surface level googling and I'm seeing nothing about about bad heads, gaskets or warping or poor reliability at all. Seems they where right in renaming it, this time.
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jesus WEP posted:they also had to rename the sequel to jaws because they named the original "les dents de la mer" that reminded me of one of my favorite polish posters 
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lol lmao https://twitter.com/ranimolla/status/1620086158880571397 mark zuckerberg (net worth $55bn) on meta (72k employees): "we are a scrappy little startup now!"
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nostalgia is a sickness
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FMguru posted:lol lmao they all want to go hardcore mode like elon but forget the only reason people work their asses off at startups is because of the RSU lottery tickets. that's it.
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Cold on a Cob posted:they all want to go hardcore mode like elon but forget the only reason people work their asses off at startups is because of the RSU lottery tickets. that's it. i think some of it is genuinely 'we used to be a company. a proper company' too.
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we used to be a proper company, where users and funding fell from the sky for free and nobody regulated us or blamed us for destroying the world
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post hole digger posted:nostalgia is a sickness
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FAANG cafeterias to be replaced with a half-empty case of ramen and a fridge full of condiments
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