my friends' car
 

olympic car:
http://fubingyu.aspfreeserver.com/bora.jpg

my car in the future:
http://fubingyu.aspfreeserver.com/palio.jpg
:D

European brands the china, yay for globalisation.

what's meaning "brands" "yay" "globalisation"?

Brand: A name given to any product to sell it. It may be a company name, or it may be a fake name, invented only for the product. It helps people to understand what a product is, who made it and its quality. "VW" is a company, and also a brand.

Yay: an shout of happiness.

Globalisation: US spelling "globalization": Countries selling products halfway around the world, instead of to their own people. This is a "trend" -- a slow change over years.

Yay = a happy shout

brand = the company that makes something; Fiat is a brand of car, for example.

globalization = the idea that the whole world is mixing together into one culture, usually considered a bad thing because Western cultures are having more power than Eastern ones. Jaguar was being sarcastic, he does not actually like globalization (I'm pretty sure.)

Dang, I should type faster. ;)

I think it's funny we came up with the same words for "yay".

Just for the record, those rebellious provinces across the pond have taken to spelling a lot of words with a z, the home counties spell it with an s. You also are trying to take the u out of colour, leave the u alone damn you.

Yoo know, we already took the U owt of favorite--it's only a matter of time before we conqer the letter u entirely! :)

I've done my bit to put it back. Sort of.

When I was a sophomore in high school (10th of twelve grades in the US), we got the word 'color' on a spelling test. I thought that was a bit below us, so in a fit of rebellion I used the English spelling. Marked incorrect, of course. When I argued the point with the teacher, she got all stuffy about it. Something about living in the US, not in England.

I think this is part of the reason Americans hate the French, I mean by comparison French makes English looks phonetic, I mean imagine an americanised French, Bordeaux would become what, Bordo?

How about "Bordayucks"?

It would become either Bordoo, or Border, I think.

Why do I think this?

There is a town in, I think Arkansas called "Smackover".

This is not the original name of the town. It was named Chemin Covert by the French who first settled it ...

Oh, and Buffalo, NY? Nothing to do with the large quadrupeds the western expansion caused to be hunted into endangered status ... Beau Fleau (or whatever the damn Frog words are for "pretty rivers".

(This is the kind of thing that Geography Majors look up for fun)

The Brits aren't any better.

In New England Gloucester and Worcester are pronounced gloster (glossed her) and wooster (like wood stir).

In MA, there's a Worcester that's pronounced Woostah, but here in PA there is one pronounced War-ses-tr.

gotta watch out for them damn colonies. they'll screw things up all right.

Along the lines of interesting city names, here in Virginia we have a town called Bumpass. And in Indiana, there is a county called Miami and in that county there is a town called Peru. :biggrinje
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My favorite road name here is Manchaca.

Pronounced "man-shack."

I went to Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon.

Tennessee...

There is also Thibedeaux Louisiana, pronounced 'tibuhdoe'.

There is a little harbour town in Newfoundland called Dildo.

The point at the opening of the harbour is called Dildo Head.

And then of course, there are the oh so quaintly named towns in Central PA - right smack in the middle of Amish Country

Bird in Hand
Intercourse
Paradise
BlueBall
Virginville

Makes you wonder what happens with no electricity *G*

don't forget moscow, illinois :D or bagdad, az (that is the one near dry beaver creek )

My favorite that no one ever seems to think about: the city of Love Canal in New York.

In Missouri, we have a town called Versailles (pronounced, of course, vur sails, not vur sigh). Typical hick stuff, here.

In western MA it's pronounced Woo-stir, Wolf. :)

Oh, and in Philly, Juanita is june-e-ota. :confused:

Love Canal was big news when I was in high school, so I do think about it from time to time. I seem to remember hearing that they changed the town name because the reputation lingered ... quick google reveals that people who moved into the lovely hamlet of "Black Creek Village" probably got a damn shock when someone let them in on where they'd just bought homes.