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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:57:38 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:01:41 -0400, Warp wrote:
>
>> > clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> 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).
>
> But the urban legend explicitly states that the car sold poorly
> because
> it was named "Nova", not that people were joking about the name.
The car probably sold poorly because it had a habit of not running. Some
might say that correlation isn't causation, but it certainly is at the
very least a striking coincidence.
>> So in fact it *is* true except for those who are pedantic and pronounce
>> the space in between "no" and "va".
>
> There's a clear difference in which syllable is stressed.
Of course there is. It's called a joke, sense of humour required to
understand it. ;-)
Jim
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