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Meta: Facebook's new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers
BBC News ^
| October 29, 2021
Posted on 10/29/2021 8:45:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: bobbo666
A lot of Jews don’t speak Hebrew and I expect that non-Jewish residents of Israel know some Hebrew.
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posted on
10/29/2021 10:11:00 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
M Make
E Everything
T Trump
A Again
Push it.
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posted on
10/29/2021 11:28:09 AM PDT
by
Revel
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Meta - Manufacturing Extreme Toxic Agendas
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posted on
10/29/2021 11:34:20 AM PDT
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it)
To: TexasGator
Ford Pinto (”Penis”) in Brazil.
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posted on
10/29/2021 2:14:02 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: rfp1234
Is that slang? It translates to “chick”
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posted on
10/29/2021 2:15:56 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Let's Go Brandon!)
To: nascarnation
Could be. I heard the claim that it means “penis” from a (non-Brazilian) chick at a party 25 years ago.
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posted on
10/29/2021 2:22:07 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: nascarnation
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posted on
10/29/2021 2:27:15 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: Hootowl99
This is rebranding incompetence or arrogance. Take your pick
I liked "MyLifeSucks" better.
To: Hootowl99
Navistar spelled backward is ratsivan.
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posted on
10/29/2021 11:12:45 PM PDT
by
goldbux
(No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. -- Alfred Tarski, 1936)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Meta, like Metamucil? Lol!
To: M Kehoe
I have heard that this story is a myth. I know that in the 1980s Pemex sold a grade of gasoline under the name “Nova”. If Mexicans understood it to mean “doesn’t go”, I doubt they would have used the name.
To: TexasGator
Chevrolet Nova
Yup. The ones sold south of the border and in Central and South America had to be renamed.
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posted on
10/30/2021 7:41:37 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Also, the Mustang Mach E, the glorified electric golf cart Ford is so proud of, sounds a lot like the old Jewish epithet, MOCKY. Kinda harkens back to Henry Ford’s anti Semetic proclivities
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posted on
10/30/2021 7:45:32 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
To: Flash Bazbeaux
I have heard that this story is a myth. I know that in the 1980s Pemex sold a grade of gasoline under the name “Nova”. If Mexicans understood it to mean “doesn’t go”, I doubt they would have used the name.
The Spanish verb "ir" translates into "to go", but it's a very irregular verb. So "va" is the root form for most of the conjugations - yo voy - I go; ello va - it goes; tu vas - you go; nosotros vamos - we go; and so on. But, for much slang, the pronoun can be dropped - Vamos! can be translated as "Let's go!", or such. And, adding in "no" is the same in English and Spanish, it's a negation. Therefore, "No va" can be roughly/slang translated as "No it go", or "It doesn't go".
To: Svartalfiar
I’m aware of all of that, but your explanation is like saying that English speakers understand the word manslaughter to be the sound a guy makes when he hears a joke.
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