On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:01:41 -0400, Warp wrote:

> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> For instance they name a car "Nova", though in some language it happens
>> to mean "doesn't go".
> 
>   Urban legend which isn't true.
> 
>   "Nova" in Spanish means exactly the same thing as it means in English,
> and isn't confused with anything else.

But "No va" does in fact mean "it doesn't go".  That's where the joke 
comes from, and when you say "nova" or "no va", in most Spanish-speaking 
countries, it sounds the same.  (That's based on my both having been to 
Mexico *and* Spain, BTW).

So in fact it *is* true except for those who are pedantic and pronounce 
the space in between "no" and "va".

Jim

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