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Zune means f**k in Hebrew

German in particular has many different words for more-or-less the same thing, or so I remember from my three years of struggling with the language in high school. Somewhere around here I've got my old German-English dictionary, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. I don't trust the online translators.

Of course skunk could help us. You will help us skunk, won't you. 😉
 
MrSmith said:
I'd heard about the Coke Cola 'Bring Your Ancestors Back From The Dead' faux pas and was looking for a source to get my facts right when I came across this little gem, which I think is far more appropriate for our discerning members:
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As someone who had the misfortune of owning one of these cars, I can only say that the Brazilians got it right.
 
Savage Henry said:
It means exactly the same in English...😉
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funny. When i was in Australia, I had my backpack and even a hat from ROOTS of Canada. It was hysterical. most people were very nice, but in Australia, it means the same thing as the well.... the ms Zune device mispronounced in hebrew.

ie, for unlawful carnal knowledge, ie the Van Halen Album. for short it is F.U.C.K.

(wondering if i will get censored here. never know. it isnt the exact word, but it is close.
 
ColoJohnBoy said:
The bit about the Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries that is mentioned in the article has always made me wonder.

About the Chevy Nova

Thank God for snopes.com 🙂
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They ridicule the myth, and yet it's still mostly true. There was a Chevrolet Nova for sale in Spanish speaking countries, and Nova is very, very similar phonetically to no va - meaning (it) doesn't go.
 
ColoJohnBoy said:
The bit about the Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries that is mentioned in the article has always made me wonder.

About the Chevy Nova

Thank God for snopes.com 🙂
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Snopes goes overboard in their explanation. Apparently they think that Latin Americans don't have a sense of humor, and have never heard of puns.

FWIW, I never bought the story that the Chevy Nova didn't sell in Latin America because of the name, only that it became an easy joke. This is a pretty good analogy for the Zune -- the name probably won't be a major impediment to sales in Israel, but it will provide a source of unintentional humor that certainly will not do Microsoft any good, at least in that country.
 
whooleytoo said:
They ridicule the myth, and yet it's still mostly true. There was a Chevrolet Nova for sale in Spanish speaking countries, and Nova is very, very similar phonetically to no va - meaning (it) doesn't go.
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My thought too. I always trust snopes, but to not see the connection between no va and Nova is crazy.

Like the Yugo, yeah, the spelling is different, but in the 80's I heard of alot of "you go, the car doesn't" 😛 If the car was actually called Nogo, that would have been priceless.
 
IJ Reilly said:
"Mist" auf Deutsch is "mud."
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Actually "Mist" is animal dung (e.g. Misthaufen = dung heap)

Another good German word is "After", which means bum. If German schoolkids are like we were at school, there must be some giggling when learning english, or should I say Englisch?
 
IJ Reilly said:
I thought it was built in Nogoland. That's someplace in West Africa, I believe.
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hehe 😀 Yikes, I didn't mean to imply that I didn't know the car was Yugoslavian... it was meant as a dig on snopes but ok, looking back it really wasn't all that funny 🙂
 
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