[wordup] A Nose By Any Other Name Dept. [via RISKS]

[Adam Shand]

Via: The Eristocracy <Eristocracy at merrymeet.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:41:33 +1000
From: Darryl Luff <dluff at iitscdm.com.au>
Subject: Italian naming problem

Hmm, the simple risk of your perfectly sensible domain name being
interpreted very differently in other languages.  [NOTE: text not mine.  DL]

   At least they should then have created a brilliant logo.....

     If you were a company called Powergen and you had a subsidiary that
     operated in Italy, what would you call that company's Web site?.

   Probably not http://www.powergenitalia.com

   But they really did.  ...

     [A high-strung multilingually interpretable literal string!  PGN]