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As an undergrad, we all got a lecture from the head of the library department. He got onto the subject of transliteration... how to spell something in a foreign language so that native speakers would pronounce the name the same as in the original country.
He used Cossor as an example. In Russian, they had it printed "Koccup" I've never looked at one of their sets in quite the same way. David
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That of course brings to mind that well known instrument manufacturer, Wayne Kerr.......
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I was in my 30s before someone told me it's syndrome not syndronome!
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Not to mention Siemens ...
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Our power engineering lecturer once remarked that, when he was working in industry, a new audio typist rendered his quote for a "star-connected transformer" as a "stark naked transformer".
The stereotypical difficulty that many Japanese have with the letter "r" is real enough. When I was working in the patent office, many of the inventions from Japanese applicants relating to "current mirror" circuits used the term "current miller", although they always got "current" right. Mis-spellings like this have to be taken into account when searching electronic databases. It always grated with me how the Americans used "metalurgy" to refer to the "metallisation" layer of integrated circuits. Last edited by emeritus; 20th Feb 2021 at 3:24 pm. Reason: Typos |
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Ekco- is it 'echo' or 'eeko?' One place where I worked, one chap referred to 'discrimitors' in his FM stages, inadvertently.
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Part of which ended up as my employer- the bit that nowadays sounds like something to do with good hearing
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Chinglish manuals are a whole other gold mine. Maybe there should be a 'sticky' for that one.
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With the advent of the internet, one of the problems marketing people must have is to make up a product name / model name which is unique enough to be easily findable on the internet.
One of the companies I used to work for used a time management software suite called 'Beaver'. I wouldn't risk looking for that on the internet. The Raspberry Pi foundation recently named their operating system desktop 'Pixel' - a disastrous choice, you would get about a million hits if you tried to find out anything about it. I don't know if they've since dropped or changed the name. |
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Well we have all had a bit of fun with this but its pretty much all been said so its time to wrap this one up.
Cheers Mike T
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