From: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
Cc: "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net"
<cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: The 2017 Mirai
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 09:50:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANmMgnEtaPTHZW=nPth8D2szSyfRHELZaxyyRow8Y768mjkAnw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C4610EDC-708F-46F9-9FA4-B0EA95A6F986@gmail.com>
On 06/01/2017, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5 Jan, 2017, at 20:46, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Probably the most unfortunate name chosen for a car, since the nova, given
>> the number of emissions from the mirai botnet.
>
> “Mirai” simply means “future” in Japanese. It’s also a reasonably pretty
> word, with the virtue of not being made up by some focus group.
>
> I assume their marketing team doesn’t pay much attention to the tech press -
> computer literacy in Japan is surprisingly low.
>
>> since the Nova? whats was wrong with that as a name, it was a popular car
>
> In Spanish, “no va” means “doesn’t go”. There are a *lot* of Spanish
> speakers in the Nova’s target market.
/means/ i\
apocryphally
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Happy new year.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-06 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-05 18:46 Dave Taht
2017-01-05 18:48 ` Outback Dingo
2017-01-05 19:42 ` Sebastian Moeller
2017-01-06 0:41 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-01-06 9:50 ` Alan Jenkins [this message]
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