lingua franca
Tue Mar 31 19:00 2015
What's this German thing with giving products English names? The "GermanWings" airliner crash in the French Alps immediately had me thinking "Why is the airline named 'GermanWings'? Those are English words." Just now I did a DuckDuckGo search on "HP Velotechnik Grasshopper fx", and the first 16 results are in German. Now that's not surprising, given that HP Velotechnik is a German company, but usually I get English sites when I search on English words, like "grasshopper". I hadn't really noticed that HPV's product names are English words - Spirit, Grasshopper, Streetmachine, Speedmachine, Scorpion(?), Gekko (German spelling?), Streamer. Also consistent links on every page (including their German pages) for "Shopping" and "Service", rather than the German equivalents - I guess like "le weekend" has established itself into French?
Do other countries do this? Not just adopt words, but have companies naming their products with foreign words?
Language abuse from on-line news stories:An ambulance took Oliver to a local hospital and was arrested on Monday after being released.
How does one arrest an ambulance?"With this weather coming on April 1, it's a reminder that we are definitely into severe whether season," Weather Channel lead meteorologist Kevin Roth said.
I don't think Roth said "severe 'whether'".At least 19 other states religious freedom laws.
That sentence needs a verb. ("States" is the subject, from prior context.) Is on-line news publishing without proofreading?Satellite image shows the colossal spread of the 2011 blooms on Lake Erie which can cause destructive health risks and create economical problems.
I don't think the algae problems are prudent and thriftful. [The content is different now at the original link, but several archive blogs still have it.]
Sat Apr 4 14:28:04 EDT 2015
From the instruction sheet with a new computer:... enter the 25 digit code. (It will have numbers and letters).
Letters are not digits, unless we're using base 36.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/730621.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
What's this German thing with giving products English names? The "GermanWings" airliner crash in the French Alps immediately had me thinking "Why is the airline named 'GermanWings'? Those are English words." Just now I did a DuckDuckGo search on "HP Velotechnik Grasshopper fx", and the first 16 results are in German. Now that's not surprising, given that HP Velotechnik is a German company, but usually I get English sites when I search on English words, like "grasshopper". I hadn't really noticed that HPV's product names are English words - Spirit, Grasshopper, Streetmachine, Speedmachine, Scorpion(?), Gekko (German spelling?), Streamer. Also consistent links on every page (including their German pages) for "Shopping" and "Service", rather than the German equivalents - I guess like "le weekend" has established itself into French?
Do other countries do this? Not just adopt words, but have companies naming their products with foreign words?
Language abuse from on-line news stories:An ambulance took Oliver to a local hospital and was arrested on Monday after being released.
How does one arrest an ambulance?"With this weather coming on April 1, it's a reminder that we are definitely into severe whether season," Weather Channel lead meteorologist Kevin Roth said.
I don't think Roth said "severe 'whether'".At least 19 other states religious freedom laws.
That sentence needs a verb. ("States" is the subject, from prior context.) Is on-line news publishing without proofreading?Satellite image shows the colossal spread of the 2011 blooms on Lake Erie which can cause destructive health risks and create economical problems.
I don't think the algae problems are prudent and thriftful. [The content is different now at the original link, but several archive blogs still have it.]
Sat Apr 4 14:28:04 EDT 2015
From the instruction sheet with a new computer:... enter the 25 digit code. (It will have numbers and letters).
Letters are not digits, unless we're using base 36.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/730621.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]