On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:40:39 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> 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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