There is an urban legent that the Chevy Nova had to change it’s name in Mexico because it could be interpreted as “no va”. it’s a cute story, but it’s false. Now, apparently there is a little claim going around that Bing, the brand name of Microsoft’s search engine in fact sounds like the word [...]
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Bing is not (only) “disease” in Chinese
Posted in Language, Lost in My Mind, tagged Bing, Chinese, Chinese names, Google, internet, Language, memes, Microsoft on March 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
English Names of Chinese people
Posted in Language, Lost in My Mind, tagged China, Chinese, Chinese names, English, English names on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ChinaSMACK has a contest up to win a copy of the book In China, my name is… which focuses on the phenomenon of Chinese people choosing English names for various reasons. All you have to do is post a comment to their contest post with a story or stories about Chinese people’s English names or [...]
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