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  2. Brand blunder - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian people pronounce it as "Panteks" (pronounced as "pun-techs") in which Pantek is an expletive in Sumatran Malay (Minangkabau, Ocu, Palembang, Pasisi, etc.) and Maduranese language meaning "fuck you". [47] Sangean, a Taiwanese consumer electronic brand which means too easy to sexually aroused in Indonesian expletives. [48]

  3. Foreign branding - Wikipedia

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    In advertising and marketing, foreign branding is the use of foreign or foreign-sounding brand names for companies, goods, and services to imply they are of foreign origin, generally to make them appear to come from a place that seems attractively fitting, or at least exotic. It may also be done if the country of origin has a poor image, in ...

  4. List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the names in the list above, these names are still widely known by the public as brand names, and are not used by competitors. Scholars disagree as to whether the use of a recognized trademark name for similar products can truly be called "generic", or if it is instead a form of synecdoche .

  5. ‘Caught in 4k’: What the slang phrase really means - AOL

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    Your teen is “caught in 4K” — and boy, they’re in trouble. This is the definition of the slang expression, according to Dictionary.com: “Caught in 4k is a phrase that means someone was ...

  6. Popular Brands Named After Real People - AOL

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    Some of the most popular brands we use today have founders behind them who not only gave their blood, sweat, and tears, but also their names. For instance, Johnnie Walker was a real person.

  7. List of most-disliked YouTube videos - Wikipedia

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    YouTube Rewind 2018 is the single most disliked video on YouTube, receiving over 19 million dislikes since its upload on December 6, 2018. [1] This list of most-disliked YouTube videos contains the top 42 videos with the most dislikes of all time, as derived from the American video platform, YouTube's, charts. [2]

  8. List of Internet phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Nyan Cat – A YouTube video of an animated flying cat, set to an Utau song. [75] A group of Polandball characters. Polandball (more commonly known as Countryballs) – A user-generated Internet meme which originated on the /int/ board of German imageboard Krautchan.net in the latter half of 2009. The meme is manifested in a large number of ...

  9. Irish names you’re probably saying wrong and how to pronounce ...

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    The boy’s name Oisín and the girl’s name Róisín are Ush-een and Rush-een in most parts of the country, but O-sheen and Ro-sheen in others. When a fada appears over an i at the end of a name ...