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TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 days agoOp has a point. Even English names that succeed internationally are somewhat bound by the ability of speakers of other languages to spell and pronounce the name. Y’all are here acting like what they’re saying is hateful or something…
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Its even more important to use various word from various language.
English as default also resulting American culture as the most prominent culture.
Newer generation are more acceptable to outside culture, so this will be work. Not to forget, the rest of non-English society already operate in multi language society and get exposed for various culture.
Years ago, people heavily localized Angliscize a lot of Asian media, but now, people are more accepting foreign naming convention. Just take a look at various FOSS porject in Japanese, Hindi, Persia, or Finnish.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No one is saying you cannot have a good German name. Uber is an American company. Shit company but great name. Comes from German and translates to other linguistic communities fairly well
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Uber isn’t a German word tho?
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Also, the founders are Canadian and American, not Germans
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uber
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Something, something über alles…