On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:55:56 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> >   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.
> 
>   What I meant was that in my experience (I have lived in Spain) nobody
> would think of "no va" from seeing the word "Nova", unless someone
> explicitly pointed it out for them.

Well, that is certainly true, but it doesn't change the joke at all. ;-)

Jim

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