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Yet another fucking cringe name to add to the modern corpo lexicon

Bytedance
Tencent
Xpeng
Crunchyroll

I don’t even know that much about any of these companies or their practices but i just really dislike their names. I genuinely cringe when i read those words, lol

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Most of those are based upon non-English language references.

Tencent - The company name in Mandarin 腾讯 or in téng xùn. When pronounced it sort of sounds like ten cent (but not really to my ear).

Xpeng - The company name in Mandarin is 小鹏汽车; or in pinyin: Xiǎopéng Qìchē. So for a romanization Xiǎopéng is shortened to Xpeng

Crunchyroll - Isn’t Crunchyroll a type of a sushi roll?

Or to put it another way, if you’re upset by these names, you should be equally upset with names like Starbucks, LA Fitness, or Del Taco.

Bytedance - Totally made up, I think for this for this one I think.
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