Connotations
Connotations
Posted Apr 8, 2005 14:12 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: Why not Mandrectiva? by shad
Parent article: Mandrakesoft announces name change
Did you consult with a native English speaker at all?
Is there any trademark that cannot be twisted into something humorous in some major language? Probably only those that consist only of numbers...
Ultimately the only thing that matters is the quality of the product associated with the trademark.
To my Finnish ears Mandriva does not sound too bad. It feels vaguely like a brand of car, certainly nothing so negative. It even has an obvious and not so difficult pronunciation in Finnish.