Comment by 1attice

Generalizing, generations of Europeans have been trained to hunt for these mistakes, in both their own writing and thinking and elsewhere, as they telegraph ignorance and open markets to competition.

It is standard in multilingual regions to consider multiple languages during product naming; to do otherwise is often considered humiliating.

You can bet your nut that "Mistral" was sounded out in more languages than "Cat, I farted" ever was.

Here are a couple of particularly famous fsckups:

- the Rolls Royce Silver Mist didn't sell well in Germany for some reason (coughs)

- the Chevy Nova didn't sell well in Spanish countries, again, seemingly for no reason (cackles)