The new French prime minister's name sounds like a slang word for penis in Arabic.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/17/world/meast/france-pm-name-embarrassment/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2
I say send him to negotiate peace between the Jews and Muslims. They will start laughing so much that they won't be able to hate each other anymore.
LOL
How unfortunate for him. I don't even speak Arabic and I'm almost chuckling when I read his name,
There was a car called Pinto (which means penis) released here in Brazil a while back...needless to say that it didn't sell very well and they had to change the name.
Silver Sphinx, I want to deep fry your avatar and eat with tortillasHEY JAJA means HUEVOS! :o
Quote from: xSilverPhinxThere was a car called Pinto (which means penis) released here in Brazil a while back...needless to say that it didn't sell very well and they had to change the name.
There is a story that Rolls Royce had to change the name of the Silver Mist in Germany.
Mist is German for 'dung'.
Quote from: OldGit on May 18, 2012, 10:24:56 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinxThere was a car called Pinto (which means penis) released here in Brazil a while back...needless to say that it didn't sell very well and they had to change the name.
There is a story that Rolls Royce had to change the name of the Silver Mist in Germany. Mist is German for 'dung'.
And the Toyota MR2 in France sounds similarly to merde when pronounced.
Quote from: CrowAnd the Toyota MR2 in France sounds similarly to merde when pronounced.
Hey, so it does! I never thought of that.
If Memory serves me right THE Chevy Nova meant something like it doesn;t run in Mexican Spanish.
Of course! No va - doesn't go. Excellent!
Quote from: markmcdaniel on May 18, 2012, 11:14:50 AM
If Memory serves me right THE Chevy Nova meant something like it doesn;t run in Mexican Spanish.
"Mexican" Spanish? :D
Quote from: AnimatedDirt on May 18, 2012, 03:58:22 PM
Quote from: markmcdaniel on May 18, 2012, 11:14:50 AM
If Memory serves me right THE Chevy Nova meant something like it doesn;t run in Mexican Spanish.
"Mexican" Spanish? :D
Probably referring to the dialect. The Spanish they speak in Mexico is a bit different than, for example, the Spanish they speak Spain, or in Cuba. Not so much that Spanish speakers from different regions can't understand each other, but kind of like the difference between US English and British English. We have different slang, colloquialisms, et cetera.
Quote from: Ali on May 18, 2012, 04:37:17 PM
Quote from: AnimatedDirt on May 18, 2012, 03:58:22 PM
Quote from: markmcdaniel on May 18, 2012, 11:14:50 AM
If Memory serves me right THE Chevy Nova meant something like it doesn;t run in Mexican Spanish.
"Mexican" Spanish? :D
Probably referring to the dialect. The Spanish they speak in Mexico is a bit different than, for example, the Spanish they speak Spain, or in Cuba. Not so much that Spanish speakers from different regions can't understand each other, but kind of like the difference between US English and British English. We have different slang, colloquialisms, et cetera.
I understand...but it's not even a slang or colloquialism in Spanish or "Mexican"...it's just one English word that incorporates two Spanish words that in context of being the name of a car makes one giggle. Having grown up speaking Spanish and being surrounded by the language, I have never heard anyone use "no va" as a slang or colloquialism except in referring to THE car.
It always makes me cringe when a person asks another if they speak "Mexican". It's like me asking a Brit if he/she speaks British.
:) I get it though.
Quebec people are known to speak "Québécois" as opposed to french. And french people in Nova Scotia are known to speak "Acadian" along the same vein. ibm might have better input on how appropriate that is, though, as I'm super anglophone. :P
Well, it's one thing to ask a mexican if they speak spanish. However, it is a common mistake to accidentally ask a mexican if they are spanish. Ooo...yeah, that will not go over well with the ladies.... :-X
Quote from: RenegeReversi on May 18, 2012, 09:04:52 PM
Well, it's one thing to ask a mexican if they speak spanish. However, it is a common mistake to accidentally ask a mexican if they are spanish. Ooo...yeah, that will not go over well with the ladies.... :-X
*Snerk* Sometimes my dad (Mexican American) gets drunk and rants about Spaniards.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 18, 2012, 03:50:22 AM
LOL
How unfortunate for him. I don't even speak Arabic and I'm almost chuckling when I read his name,
There was a car called Pinto (which means penis) released here in Brazil a while back...needless to say that it didn't sell very well and they had to change the name.
Odd when you think that cars for men are popularly supposed to be virility symbols.
Quote from: En_Route on May 18, 2012, 11:55:27 PM
Odd when you think that cars for men are popularly supposed to be virility symbols.
Are they? I see them as a pointless waste of money that is so full of advertising and marketing messages that people have began repeating the lines as if they thought it up. "With a car I can be free" no you can't, you have to pay for the car, for tax, for insurance, get them fixed constantly, pay more for petrol than it cost to use public transport, can't drink alcohol, cant sleep while in transit, can't legally talk on the phone, massively fucking up the environment, and you are at a very high chance of killing somebody. Though if I lived in the states (outside of NYC) I would probably drive and cars for great for racing.
Quote from: RenegeReversi on May 18, 2012, 04:12:54 AM
Silver Sphinx, I want to deep fry your avatar and eat with tortillasHEY JAJA means HUEVOS! :o
Huh?
Quote from: DeterminedJuliet on May 18, 2012, 06:56:40 PM
Quebec people are known to speak "Québécois" as opposed to french. And french people in Nova Scotia are known to speak "Acadian" along the same vein. ibm might have better input on how appropriate that is, though, as I'm super anglophone. :P
Amongst ourselves we say that we speak French, not Quebecker, and as everywhere else in the world, every region has its own dialect.
But none resembles Merovinvian's "punch" line in the movie The Matrix Reloaded: "I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculer ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it. »
Anyway, that's the way I hear it in my region. What people say outside Québec, I simply do not know.
QuoteNom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculer ta mère.
That's worth learning by heart! ;D
Quote from: En_Route on May 18, 2012, 11:55:27 PM
Odd when you think that cars for men are popularly supposed to be virility symbols.
I let my genitals be my virility symbols. Naturally, I drive an old Passat. ;D