From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!ljm
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: interlingual puns
Article-I.D.: brunix.1907
Posted: Fri Mar 11 09:20:51 1983
Received: Sat Mar 12 06:35:51 1983
References: brunix.1886,floyd.1250,uvacs.457


My favorite story along these lines comes from IBM:

Origonally, the IBM System/32 was to be called the System/42.  However, IBM
marketing types in Japan noted that the transliteration of "42" to Japenese
yielded a not-so-nice comment about one's mother(or something - any Japanese
out there please feel free to elucidate).  Hence, the change of number...