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How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#41
Legally you can't call a company Magical Ass otherwise it would be common like novelty plates

But a company CREATING Magical Ass, this would obviously be one doing perfect CGI humans.

Michelangelo-level perfection and pathos at 60fps+ = direct hijack into the divine experience centers of your brain

Big Thiel truth here, yeah I'm already working on it

https://medium.com/@auren/why-the-famous-peter-thiel-intervi...

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#42
> We've sent out a newsletter to our customers to let them know about the changes and here's what one of our users replied

Thank you, I can't help but laugh at the idea that they received what looked like a out-of-season april fool's :D

Most important question are you keeping the brand ? As the French person, I can assure you that everyone will read "magic ass" before anything else.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#43

The French are probably the best people to do this to, they have a sense of humor about this sort of thing. I'd add a note in French in your FAQ and leave it as is. It may even net you customers.

see coq

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#46

So what? Italian automobile giant Fiat recently turned "FCA", which is the Italian equivalent of "PSSY" It's fine, people joke and then move onto the next TikTok video.

Same with Honda Fitta, with fitta being Swedish for pussy. And kiss, famously the name of a band, is Swedish for pee. Stadler also named one of their trains KISS, though in Sweden they marketed it by the working name Dosto.

I find it hilarious (as an italian) how the Swedish word for "coffee pause" sounds, and the way it is often used or described:

https://www.swedishfood.com/fika

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#47
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really wondering about the origin of that phrase. The literal translation is "ass of bag"?

Since a bag ("sac") has no exit hole ("cul"), and so a "cul-de-sac" is a (I guess 2nd degree ?) way of saying "way with no exit".

If you translate (instead of ass) cul as "bottom", it is more like the "bottom of a sack" (i.e. no-exit), if your interpretation was correct, it would be a no-cul-de-sac.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

#49

The French are probably the best people to do this to, they have a sense of humor about this sort of thing. I'd add a note in French in your FAQ and leave it as is. It may even net you customers.

see coq https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq

It also means cock in the sense of what's more commonly (though less accurately) called a rooster (hens roost too). Coq au vin is a tough old male chicken cooked in wine, not a sausage dish.
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