From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxi!mhuxv!mhuxm!pyuxjj!rlr Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: interlingual puns Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.442 Posted: Sun Mar 13 19:49:09 1983 Received: Mon Mar 14 08:28:27 1983 References: brunix.1907 This is taken from a previous article about the choice of name for the IBM System/32 (originally System/42): However, IBM marketing types in Japan noted that the transliteration of "42" to Japanese yielded a not-so-nice comment about one's mother(or something - any Japanese out there please feel free to elucidate). What is it about this number 42????????? Rich