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echo: win95
to: Alan Zisman
from: Sean Dennis
date: 2011-08-07 10:39:24
subject: xp.. vista

Hello, Alan.

Saturday August 06 2011 at 22:55, you wrote to August Abolins:

 AZ> Similarly, the 1960's Chevy Nova had marketing problems in Latin
 AZ> American - "No va" in Spanish translating to
"Doesn't go"... not what
 AZ> you want from a car.

Yep, I'd mentioned that too in my response to him.  Kinda funny that we
Americans don't think about what we name products.  That is one of the
reasons why I'll never name a child "Misty" since in German,
"misty" is slang for poo.

Later,
Sean

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