In Germany Ford sold a sports Coupé named cougar
In north america it was sold as the Mercury Cougar.
How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
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Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
#72The 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.
Don’t worry, Audi made the same mistake. Do you know how to call a turd in French? e-tron. And yes, Audi kept the same name in France.
Some people nearly tried to sell the new Coca-Cola brand "Fuze tea" in Switzerland where "Fuze" spoken in swiss german is very close to a womens sexual organ (in a disrespectful way). So they changed the name to "fuse tea". Close shot.
Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Appreciate the honest feedback. We get that a lot actually, if you reach out to our customer support team we can convert a small file for free for you. Our converter literally almost everything, prototyping, components and what not. Maybe we should add a free trial tho.
> We get that a lot actually Now think of all the people who never tell you and just move on. They don’t get to use a useful tool and you don’t get the customer. Lose-lose. > if you reach out to our customer support team we can convert a small file for free for you. Which costs you money via the time spent on support. > Maybe we should add a free trial tho. From your grandparent comment, it seems you offer different…
> Now think of all the people who never tell you and just move on.
This.
> Which costs you money via the time spent on support
And this.
But the most important thing is what for any (we based) service I expect a zero amount of friction.
Contacting support is way too much for my 21sr century ass.
Edit: I leave the typos as a reminder not to drink and comment.
Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
The term cul-de-sac is not that uncommon in American English, given the amount of suburbs having them.
Really wondering about the origin of that phrase. The literal translation is "ass of bag"?
Fun fact: Tolkien hated English "borrowing" words from other languages that we had already - so he named his hero Bilbo Baggins (bag ends) of Bag End - where Bag End literally is the English for cul-de-sac (end of bag).
Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
#75When the Australian government decided to cancel the order of a dozen of French submarines, they announced that they had made a new special alliance with the US and the UK. The name of the alliance is "AUKUS" (Australia-UK-US). But "au cul" in French of course means "(fuck) in the ass". "Vous l'avez dans le cul" means "you've been fucked in the ass". As the cancelling of the order was received by France as a giant be…
Who can forget the briefly named Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party (CCRAP)?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-party-changes-embarrassin...
Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
#76Oh don't worry about that. As a Frenchman, I will definitely be delighted if I get my boss to pay for a Cul Magique. If the product is good, it will not matter. Better, we will make jokes about it and say stuff in the scrum meeting like: "today I will work on magically fucking myself. Someones has to do it." Plus you get plausible deniability :)
In my company we have a turn for the BAL (boite aux lettres) support. I promptly renamed being on duty for the week being the "trou de BAL", but it haven't caught yet.
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#77Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
#78Earlier 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".
Or "way with one exit, and it's behind you."
Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
#79The 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
And we have these guys around too https://www.lecoqsportif.com
Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass
#80So 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'm skeptical about the truth of the Honda Fitta ever being considered for the name. And I'm calling full BS on it.
Doing a little research on this... There's only a few articles, mostly quoting random people on the Internet. No good verified sources on it. Wikipedia mentions it too, but only links to those same articles.
Long before the Fit was ever a car, Honda already made a Jazz in Europe (which was called the Honda City in other markets). And it would make sense for the current Jazz to succeed that car. It would make less sense for them to rename it to the Fit for Europe, as the Jazz was already a recognized model.