after a hearty laugh I wondered what the name means and appparently it means "Pterodactyl", where the "wing" is actually a translation into English (pronounced yi in Chinese) and "loong" means "dragon". so "winged dragon" = "Pterodactyl".
And yet, NOBODY in the entire country of 1.4 billion noticed how insane it sounds in English? And they're trying to market it on the international stage?
why would they care, honestly? even if they're selling it internationally they'll just translate the name instead of using the english-alphabet chinese language.
>why would they care
Do you want to strike fear into your enemy? Or try to make him laugh himself to death? Because, if a pterodactyl is hunting you, you might be suffering some psychological distress on top of everything else that's trying to kill you.
They should have just called it a pterodactyl and built up meme cartoons around that nightmare. Now all the sales reps get to listen the rest of the industry snicker behind their backs while they head home with empty sales books.
It's entirely a marketing FAIL, no matter if the drone is any good or not. Somebody's nephew took home a fat paycheck for being a complete, moronic frick up. It's a missed opportunity that will probably cost the Chinese government several billion dollars in sales. The entire program ... and, by extension, all related products ... just became a joke, a laughing stock in front of the entire world. It's like naming your son Richard, Jr., but then giving him the nickname "Little Dicky." There's no recovering from stupidity at that level.
Sum Dum Fuk was put in charge of something vastly important.
the rest of the industry snicker behind their backs while they head home with empty sales books.
Nah a ton of third rate armies will buy it and the Indians will try to copy it
It's actually pretty close to the original. Pterodactyl is derived from Latin words meaning winged and finger. So, it's name means winged finger.
Pterodactyl in Chinese is yi shou long,翼手龙, which means 'wing hand dragon', so basically the same as the Latin scientific name. Names in Chinese sound odd to English ears because English uses so many borrowed technical words from Greek and Latin.
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Rooong wing smarr dick
Hahaha, ahh good to start the day with a laugh
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Does that replace the Wun Hung Lo?
Does it shoot Wush-Peng-Ow missiles?
nice
I don't get it
Yes
It can also mount Ting-Tong-Bang gun pods
>designer: Small Dong
Is itjust me or it kinda looks like minature of Su-75 ?
just you
I don't get it. What's the punchline?
after a hearty laugh I wondered what the name means and appparently it means "Pterodactyl", where the "wing" is actually a translation into English (pronounced yi in Chinese) and "loong" means "dragon". so "winged dragon" = "Pterodactyl".
And yet, NOBODY in the entire country of 1.4 billion noticed how insane it sounds in English? And they're trying to market it on the international stage?
THAT just makes it even funnier.
why would they care, honestly? even if they're selling it internationally they'll just translate the name instead of using the english-alphabet chinese language.
>why would they care
Do you want to strike fear into your enemy? Or try to make him laugh himself to death? Because, if a pterodactyl is hunting you, you might be suffering some psychological distress on top of everything else that's trying to kill you.
They should have just called it a pterodactyl and built up meme cartoons around that nightmare. Now all the sales reps get to listen the rest of the industry snicker behind their backs while they head home with empty sales books.
It's entirely a marketing FAIL, no matter if the drone is any good or not. Somebody's nephew took home a fat paycheck for being a complete, moronic frick up. It's a missed opportunity that will probably cost the Chinese government several billion dollars in sales. The entire program ... and, by extension, all related products ... just became a joke, a laughing stock in front of the entire world. It's like naming your son Richard, Jr., but then giving him the nickname "Little Dicky." There's no recovering from stupidity at that level.
Sum Dum Fuk was put in charge of something vastly important.
the rest of the industry snicker behind their backs while they head home with empty sales books.
Nah a ton of third rate armies will buy it and the Indians will try to copy it
It's actually pretty close to the original. Pterodactyl is derived from Latin words meaning winged and finger. So, it's name means winged finger.
Pterodactyl in Chinese is yi shou long,翼手龙, which means 'wing hand dragon', so basically the same as the Latin scientific name. Names in Chinese sound odd to English ears because English uses so many borrowed technical words from Greek and Latin.
Sum Wing Wong
Wtf i love trannies now
wi tu lo
We ought to have called the F-117 the Low Poly Model.
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Gets me every time. I love how the blamed some intern while they were too moronic to spot the joke.
WINGS LOOOOOONNGGG
SUM TIN WANG!!
LONG LONG WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
LOOOOONG ahhh
LOOOOOOOOOOONG mmmm
>Wing Loong
>Bing Chilling
who writes this shit?
Ho Lee Fuk
>haha, look, I mass replied everyone
have a nice day subhuman
Ngo Phun
extremely high quality post
> yfw the chinks copy your autosegelflugenzielgerätwaffen
>翼龙
I don't get why it's called Wing Loong, when the Pinyin is Yi Long, maybe the designers or marketing though it would be funny.
Pretty sure it is a marketing thing using play on words, otherwise they would have called it the Pterosaur-3 or Yi Long-3.
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>B-but muh chinese collapse!!!
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no one cares homosexual go blog about it
Is sum ting wong?
They should have just directly translated as Pterodactyl, even YiLong sounds better.
do we have any names in english that sound really funny in other languages?