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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:40:39 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmail com> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>> > "Nova" in Spanish means exactly the same thing as it means in
>> > English,
>> > and isn't confused with anything else.
>
>> But people who had troubles with their Nova car will still say it "no
>> va".
>
> I understand that it works as a joke, but I don't think "Nova" would
> actually *confuse* anybody.
Nobody claimed that it would, it's called a "joke", and product naming
often is subject to jokes, especially when it's something so obviously
antithetical to the product's function - like a car that won't go.
Jim
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