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And anyway, what did you expect Jesus to do? Start a new thread? No. He had to resurrect this thread.
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That's interesting. So that must have been your machine with the yellow maemo label. A picture of it was posted not long ago either here or in a blog, I'm not sure which.
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For instance in Spain only posh arrogant people would pronnounce "Nike" as it is pronnounced in the company headquarters ('naikí'). Everybody says "Nike" as "Mike" (something that actually makes sense if you think it twice). This doesn't seem a burden for them to sell a lot.
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Ah, the good old name debate. Can get funny though, like with BIC. Bic is originally written as Bich (in french, after the founder's name, so that would make it 'bish' IINM). However, when moving outside of France, they were afraid people would pronounce it 'b-i-t-c-h', so they shortened it. At least that's what the legend says.
But this happens all the time. Boy would someone selling Ondo phones get surprised in HungaryAnd, if I'm at phones, from what I hear Moko (as in OpenMoko) is not exactly a dinner topic in Spain, either.
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... in Spain and people will laugh at your face for ignorant. Weird globalization.
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Yes, I wanted to say that in another thread yesterday but I didn't want to ruin timsamoff's haiku.
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That's interesting. So that must have been your machine with the yellow maemo label. A picture of it was posted not long ago either here or in a blog, I'm not sure which.
Thank you JC.