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Where Do They Come Up With These Intergalactic Names?

05/23/2018 1:55 PM

Recently, while visiting the Atomic Diffusion Additive Manufacturing to Print Metal Parts thread, this name came up:"area called aectual ,pronounced actual." This is a technical organization, not a foreign car company, or drug maker.

Now about these:

Tractor?

Trecator?

Trecator is an antibiotic approved by the FDA in 1965.

  1. Remulak?
  2. Remeron?
  3. Remeron is a tetracyclic antidepressant approved by the FDA in 1996.
  1. Natazia?
  2. Dozaria?
  3. Natazia is an oral contraceptive approved in 2010.

Other wierd names: Hetlioz. Otezla. Zykadia

Moving along:

Xfinity?

Chegg? Sells college text books. A name surely to draw great minds together.

Sonata?

Previa?

Soul?

I drive an F 150.

What are some of the LEAST logical names for products you've come across lately, and could their names possibly, in any way, indicate their intended use?
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05/23/2018 2:19 PM

Remulak, he's a boyhood friend of mine...

Remeron, A small moon of Risa...

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actually, its a marketing group that comes up with the names... some are bastardzied latin.... or English for that matter. While others is a play on words or some other clever (to the company) multiple meanings.

Its no different that the hidden meanings of company logos... some have to be pointed out.

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05/23/2018 4:49 PM

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05/23/2018 5:07 PM

Ahhhh.. that’s my clue...

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05/23/2018 2:24 PM

My phone is an entire Galaxy unto itself.
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05/23/2018 2:35 PM

Try searching for a name to copyright....s'not easy, and sometimes you have to just go with what's available...

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05/23/2018 2:39 PM

I XEROX that statement...,... opps ... let me clean that up with some CLEANEX... I mean concur

Some benchmarks of some successful examples...

I'm sure XEROX was odd in its day....

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05/23/2018 3:04 PM

Kleenex

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05/23/2018 3:43 PM

lol... ah,... spellcheck??? and if you give me a few more minutes,... I'll find better excuse... other then it just me.

Wait... I'm going to copyright that word... It's mine and you can't have it...

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05/23/2018 4:50 PM

"Gesundheit."
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05/24/2018 1:10 AM

If you look up Qweebie, you will see that Wikipedia does not have a definition for this word.
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