
The main issue is with the meanings of the word gay(alive,fast,homosexual),so if homosexuality means alive,then the legalisation is theoretically correct as every citizen needs to be pro-active...:)..See, connotations play such a vital role while deciding major issues in the society.Read the following article based on the same concept regarding how Russia stumbles into brand-name gaffe in Africa ,excerpted from the guardian newspaper.
It probably seemed a good idea at the time. But Russia’s attempt to create a joint gas venture with Nigeria could become one of the classic branding disasters — after the new company was named Nigaz. The venture was agreed last week during a four-day trip to Africa by Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev. The deal between Russia’s Gazprom and Nigeria’s state oil company was supposed to show off the Kremlin’s growing interes t in Africa’s energy reserves.
Instead, the venture is now likely to be remembered for all the wrong reasons, as a PR blunder worse than Chevrolet’s Nova, which failed to sell in South America because it translated as “doesn’t go” in Spanish. Alert users of Twitter first highlighted the unfortunate English connotations of Nigaz, which appeared to have eluded Medevedev’s Russian-speaking delegation. Writing on Monday, shunty 75 observed: “Nigaz is the name for the new Gazprom
Nigeria venture. They need a new PR outfit. NO WAY!! Haha!!” Other twitterers also derided
the name.
An article in Brand Republic pointed out the obvious: that the name has “rather different connotations” for English-speakers. It recalled other international branding mishaps, including the Ford Pinto, which in Brazil means small penis, and the Pepsi slogan “Come alive with the
Pepsi generation”, which in Taiwan translates as “Pepsi will bring your ancestors back
from the dead.” It is unclear why no one alerted Mr. Medvedev to the blunder. One possible explanation is that the offending word is still widely used in Russia. Nigaz plans to invest at least $2.5bn in oil and gas exploration, and to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.
2 comments:
my ring finger = my index finger..am i lesbian?
lol..im not asking that question
@Rush:- Take the picture seriously..please chop off that extra bit of nail on your fore finger to make your BF happy..BTW what is the answer to the question raised by you??...:)
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