__/ [ Stephen Fairchild ] on Sunday 11 June 2006 14:22 \__
> Nigel Feltham wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> OneCare - That's where Microsoft opened the door to mockery. More and
>>> more (non-technical) people are coming to grasp what you pointed out. And
>>> they are not happy!
>>
>> MS are getting so old and tired that even the jokes they inspire people to
>> make at their expense are ancient.
>>
>> The OneCare jokes date back to the days of Wang when they introduced a
>> support service called WangCare.
Reminds me of City Wok and City Airlines in South Park. The Chinese man in
the series pronounces City like "Shitty" and repeats the name of the
companies endlessly. It would not be funny in textual form , but if you saw
it, you would know what I'm talking about...
>> There's also the unfortunately named electronic test equipment
>> manufacturer 'Wayne Kerr' that have been around for 50 years so predate
>> all other jokes http://www.waynekerrtest.com/
>
> They make O-scopes *chuckle*.
There is more of an issue when it comes to internationalisation. A company
name that may be perfectly suitable and even innocent in one country
translates _really_ _terribly_ when uttered somewhere else. I have seen it
before. Local agencies (e.g. importers) deliberately change the
pronunciation to encourage sales.
Best wishes,
Roy
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