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Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Re: Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Post by super-serial »

a_p wrote: post #50

This has got to be one of the best (or worst, depending on your point of view) product names since the Windows phone named "Lumia". Lumia means prostitute in Spanish. I've always wondered how Nokia and MS missed that. EDIT: I've just learned that "Siri" sounds like a word, 尻, that means "ass" in Japanese. [1]. So I suppose this is the funniest name since Siri. [1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394201,00.asp

Well the Siri name makes sense considering how it treats Japanese people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiU8GPlsZqE

Re: Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Post by oscargrouch »

zdw wrote: post #7

So what is Orkut slang for in Portuguese?

Social networks are not much about features, or minor things like slangs.. they are about friends, and people using it..

i start to use it in 2004.. i guess facebook was not even dreaming to born.. i guess i've stop to use it in 2008.. too many people.. to many noise.. and stop for the same reason that now i dont use facebook anymore..

is interesting with few early adopters friends.. (they have a high intelectual standard in median) .. but then.. everybody start to use it and say every #$% they are doing..

theres nothing magical about who get the top on the list.. they were there, in the right time.. and got the right sort of luck :)

Re: Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Post by oscargrouch »

a_p wrote: post #50

This has got to be one of the best (or worst, depending on your point of view) product names since the Windows phone named "Lumia". Lumia means prostitute in Spanish. I've always wondered how Nokia and MS missed that. EDIT: I've just learned that "Siri" sounds like a word, 尻, that means "ass" in Japanese. [1]. So I suppose this is the funniest name since Siri. [1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394201,00.asp

Siri means Crab in portuguese.. actually a sort of Crab.. The "Mr Krabs" from Sponge Bob its even named "Siriguejo" :)

Re: Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Post by shurcooL »

richardv wrote: post #4
objclxt wrote: post #2

Since the article text itself doesn't mention exactly why the name is so bad - Rego, the name of the product, is slang for ass crack in Portuguese. I can sort of understand why you wouldn't want to put that in the post itself, but it's also a little annoying to have to watch a video to find out why it went viral.

I enjoyed watching the video since if I had read your comment, it would have spoiled the entire reason why this post is pretty hilarious..... Finding out the context of a "joke" before the joke being told is kind of a spoiler. Anyway, watch the video if you can, it's worth the minute.

Thanks for your recommendation to watch the video, it was funny enough not to regret it.

That said, I don't think objclxt's comment spoils the fun of the video because even in the video he explains what Rego means before getting to the funny stuff.

Re: Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Post by fragsworth »

lsc wrote: post #42

Man, they handled it well. The guy got the low-brow humor without acting particularly low-brow, which is a difficult thing to do. I wonder if.. they planned it? That would have been brilliant. The thing is, it's probably one of those "only funny once" things, so I doubt that the next company trying it would be so successful. (That, and the original company, man, if they were planning it? they were /subtle/ - and that…

It will probably happen again, except the next time it will be intentional, and it will be successful in another country. Most people don't even hear about this stuff.

Re: Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Post by PySlice »

speeder wrote: post #13
zdw wrote: post #7

So what is Orkut slang for in Portuguese?

Google handling of Orkut just suck. Personally the features on Orkut are much more interesting than the ones in Facebook, but Google never fixed issues that existed since the platform inception ( for example there are no edit button to fix your forum posts )

Orkut did have an edit button in the beginning, and it was removed afterwards (maybe it causes too much confusion?).

Re: Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Post by MasterScrat »

objclxt wrote: post #2

Since the article text itself doesn't mention exactly why the name is so bad - Rego, the name of the product, is slang for ass crack in Portuguese. I can sort of understand why you wouldn't want to put that in the post itself, but it's also a little annoying to have to watch a video to find out why it went viral.

I'm surprised I can't see any reference to "rego" meaning anything like "butt crack" except in articles talking about this precise incident.

Re: Why our product went viral in Brazil for the wrong reasons

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Post by alenart »

gabriel34 wrote: post #36
icebraining wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd just like to point out that pinto only refers to the male anatomy in Brazil. Here in Portugal - and probably in other Portuguese speaking countries -, a "pinto" is just a young chicken.

Still a bad name for a car though. Also, I think the Pinto never made it to Brazil.

I think the Corcel I was the Pinto, no?
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