[fakedang]

Why is it that in every thread of a newly released product, there's always some European popping by, just to say, "Oh, but the name doesn't sound appropriate in _my language_"? Suck it up Yurop, or make your own.

And imo, Mythos is a much better name than the kind of shit Mistral seems to come up with.

[1attice]

Generalizing, generations of Europeans have been trained to hunt for these mistakes, in both their own writing and thinking and elsewhere, as they telegraph ignorance and open markets to competition.

It is standard in multilingual regions to consider multiple languages during product naming; to do otherwise is often considered humiliating.

You can bet your nut that "Mistral" was sounded out in more languages than "Cat, I farted" ever was.

Here are a couple of particularly famous fsckups:

- the Rolls Royce Silver Mist didn't sell well in Germany for some reason (coughs)

- the Chevy Nova didn't sell well in Spanish countries, again, seemingly for no reason (cackles)

[shmeeed]

That list is sorely lacking the Mitsubishi Pajero. Still my favorite of 'em all.

[sdeframond]

Heehee, I'm still laughing about the Audi e-tron ^^