What name next?
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Smart?Islamic State - - ISIS - - EIIL (French) - - ISIL - - I.S. - - Daesh.
Any idea what next week's name will be?
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How about...... Evil murdering terrorist bastards.
Maybe we should ask Victoria Coren Mitchell to re-format that as one of the conundrums on 'Only Connect'. There are some very clever people among those teams on that show.Islamic State - - ISIS - - EIIL (French) - - ISIL - - I.S. - - Daesh.
Any idea what next week's name will be?
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Tom
The trouble is that when the initials of that are spoken as a word like ISIS etc, it phonetically comes out as EMTB.
Not an image we want!
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Ah yeah, i never really thought that through did I.The trouble is that when the initials of that are spoken as a word like ISIS etc, it phonetically comes out as EMTB.
Not an image we want!
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How about.... Evil barbaric islamic known extremists.
. Very good, but even worse!Acronyms and names etc can be dangerous, this reminds me of when Ford in the 1970s designed the Capri out of a mix of Cortina and Anglia parts.
They coined the model name Ford Caprino for it, but just before the launch with all the glossy brochures and posters printed, someone discovered that Caprino was Sicilian slang for Goat Sh*t, and that was commonly used throughout Southern Italy. Cue quick change to Capri and publicity reprint.
N.B. Italian for goat is capra.
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.....and the Toyota MR2 which had to be renamed for the french market.....
Acronyms and names etc can be dangerous, this reminds me of when Ford in the 1970s designed the Capri out of a mix of Cortina and Anglia parts.
They coined the model name Ford Caprino for it, but just before the launch with all the glossy brochures and posters printed, someone discovered that Caprino was Sicilian slang for Goat Sh*t, and that was commonly used throughout Southern Italy. Cue quick change to Capri and publicity reprint.
N.B. Italian for goat is capra.
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Indeed, and there's been others. Although not aware of the Caprino example, this website page lists many of them.
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Indeed, the whole business of international model naming is highly risky.
Suzuki played safe with my 4wd car, which rejoices in the catchy name:
SX4 - SZ5
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I lived and worked in Sweden for a bit. The Swedes thought it very amusing that all our British trades were called fitters. The word 'Fitta' in Swedish means.......well it begins with 'C'.
I will never forget seeing a Swedish colleague laughing his R's off, pointing at two blokes as they walked past the office window and shouting in a heavy Scandinavian accent,
'So he is a mech cxxt, and he is a pipe cxxt!'
I will never forget seeing a Swedish colleague laughing his R's off, pointing at two blokes as they walked past the office window and shouting in a heavy Scandinavian accent,
'So he is a mech cxxt, and he is a pipe cxxt!'