Sujet : Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems
De : naddy (at) *nospam* mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 15. Oct 2024, 15:36:09
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On 2024-10-14, Don_from_AZ <
djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote:
I read somewhere a (possibly apocryphal) story that the Chevy "Nova" was
unpopular in Mexico because "no va" means "it won't go" in Spanish.
I don't doubt that somebody sniggered over it. I'll point out,
though, that the Spanish word for "nova", is, well, "nova".
And I see there's a note about this in the expected place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevy_II_/_Nova#Urban_legend-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de