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...