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GlennSprigg:
UNLESS I missed something over the last numerous pages here...
There are also a LOT of funny & inappropriate Website/Domain names! . . .  8)
https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-domain-names/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on July 06, 2021, 10:35:29 am ---UNLESS I missed something over the last numerous pages here...
There are also a LOT of funny & inappropriate Website/Domain names! . . .  8)
https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-domain-names/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

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Oh, my.
GlennSprigg:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 06, 2021, 10:48:26 am ---
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on July 06, 2021, 10:35:29 am ---UNLESS I missed something over the last numerous pages here...
There are also a LOT of funny & inappropriate Website/Domain names! . . .  8)
https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-domain-names/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

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Oh, my.

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I'm sure a lot of these, (and numerous other companies!), must be aware of the situation, but are happy to play
on it to gain further attention to themselves!!   8)
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on July 06, 2021, 09:38:12 am ---Many, many Finns, especially the older folk, won't talk to you in English because they fear you laugh at their accent.  Get them drunk, and suddenly they talk like five languages. Usually all mixed together, though.

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On the last contract I did for a German company I had a colleague who spoke native German, very good English and passable French and Italian. I speak native English, terrible German (but with a near impeccable north western accent as I learned it all in Germany from Germans which results in people greatly overestimating my competence in the language) and passable French. We had other colleagues from all over Europe and Africa and the one common language was English. Said colleague, Sven, had the habit of lapsing into French, sometimes when he couldn't find an English word for the German in his head, sometimes just because he knew he was in a "foreign" non-German conversation, so might drop into a conference call with "Bonjour tout le monde". I, on the other hand, have a habit of at least trying to reply in the language I've been spoken to in, and, like Sven, my brain sometimes short circuits and knows it should be speaking "foreign" and grabs the most familiar foreign word, even if it isn't in the language being spoken.

The net result of all this is that when Sven and I were talking to each other the conversation could be in a mixture of English/German/French, often all in one sentence, complete with accent shifts. We used to drive people crazy with it, especially folks from the Balkan countries who often only had English as their only non-native language, and the English who are notoriously bad at "foreign" even though it has been compulsory to teach at least one modern foreign language in our schools since I was a child.
harerod:
Nominal Animal:
Quenya being based on Finnish phonotactics - that is excellent information. I will keep that in mind when I reread the Tolkien's work.

"Finnish Rally English Accent" - I had to look that one up. Schumacher vs. Häkkinen, those were the days.

I took university phonetics classes for aspiring English teachers in 2017/2018. Highest grades will only be awarded to students with flawless General American or Received Pronunciation, judged by native speakers. I soon dropped out of the advanced classes, but stayed friends with my American phonetics teacher, who became my sparring partner for Japanese. That connection is rather fortunate for me, since my more severe oral production mistakes still get corrected.

"Don't get self-hating xenophiles teach you foreign languages; the results are just too odd." Indeed, I couldn't find a better term for the people that make the liberal arts departments so unbearable for engineers.

"Get them drunk, and suddenly they talk like five languages". From first hand experience with Finns I can only say that this would be an expensive experiment, requiring solid funding.


All the other readers:
I would like to apologize for taking this thread OT. However I can't come up with any funny company names that would work in English. Feel free to laugh at mine, a rather direct translation of my last name. It stems from the sticks peon drivers used to beat about the bushes with - to chase rabbits out for the noble hunters. Nothing naughty, sorry.
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