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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (62428)6/19/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: fyo  Respond to of 1572099
 
Tench - Re: When the Xeon brand name was released (or was it Celeron?), I remember reading somewhere that Intel marketing made sure that the brand name didn't translate into anything meaningful in 20 languages. This is probably to avoid the Chevrolet Nova effect. ("No va" in Spanish means "It doesn't go!")

I remember hearing/reading somewhere that Colgate meant something similarly fubar.

--fyodor



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (62428)6/19/1999 3:56:00 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572099
 
I believe "no va" means "no go" in french, not spanish......not that it is a big deal, just thought you would like to know.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (62428)6/20/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1572099
 
My apologies...Marco was right; Spanish is the right language.

ted


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