KDE Programs Naming Convention

[Jesus Arocho]

The nova story is an example of an advertising oversight.  I lived through the 
advertising in Puerto Rico and it was used as a simple joke.  The joke ran 
its course, several months, and that was about it.  Companies are now quite 
aware of such possible 'gotcha' labeling and do a better job of checking the 
meaning of words in local languages.

On Sunday 13 January 2008 23:16:36 D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2008, Mike Leone wrote:
> > There's a famous story about the advertising for the Chevy Nova car in
> > Hispanic countries. In Spanish, "no va" means "no go". You really don't
> > want to call your car the "No Go" ...
>
> I think it's probably an urban legend though.  It's "Nova" not "no va," and
> they probably have the same word "nova" we do, pertaining to star stuff. 
> Of course it's also the same word as "nueva" without the odd Spanish
> spelling shifts too (nova -> nueva, ferrum -> hierro, facere -> hacer,
> etc.)
>
> Snopes agrees:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
>
> Snopes doesn't have anything to say about the Toyota MR2.  I don't see
> anything that directly refutes the possibility that they introduced the car
> with that name, though this site indicates they at least changed it:
>
> http://www.edmunds.com/toyota/mr2spyder/review.html
>
> The whole emm erre duh for merde does seem a lot more plausible than the
> "no va" story though, so maybe it's true.  Or was true.
>
> Ah, those beautiful women who think I'm a dweeb don't know what they're
> missing.  Etymology lessons in the middle of a night of romance baby.  Who
> needs flowers when you can talk about the archaic future subjunctive mood
> in Spanish?
>
> (Just as well, since I'm married to quite possibly the only female human on
> this entire rock who doesn't think I'm weird.  As for the beautiful part,
> that's why Al Gore invented beer.  I'm so glad she doesn't ever check up on
> me with google.  :) )
>
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre