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