Did Microsoft Use Linguists For Zune?
Posted By Lid On October 20, 2006 @ 8:49 pm In Fun | Comments Disabled
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According to a recent article in Infoworld [2], the name of Microsoft’s new digital music player “Zune”, “Sounds like a vulgarity, specifically the ‘f’ word in Hebrew.”
Thanks to Valleywag [3] for pointing this out, as well as noting the FCUK [4] branding wasn’t a bad move by French Connection.(Love the title [3] Valleywag gave the story; I suspect it will catch on real quick)
Speaking of Microsoft…..who said their developers were not clever [5]?
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[1] Image: http://blog-well.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/logzuneo.jpg
[2] Infoworld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/18/HNzunehebrew_1.html
[3] Valleywag: http://www.valleywag.com/tech/microsoft/motherzuner-microsofts-new-player-sounds-dirty-in-hebrew-209008.php
[4] FCUK: http://www.fcuk.com
[5] clever: http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/shellblog/archive/2006/10/09/Features-that-didn_2700_t-make-the-cut.aspx
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