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Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand(nordinvestimentos.com.br) |
Then it can be the Google Azure Amazon data center.
Bezos, though, was smarter and did donated the money, but to the neighbor state of Pará (which also has the Amazon forest in its territory). So the public image blackmailing worked in a way, but the governor who did it did not get the money.
Whenever a Έλληνας (Hellonas - I think) uses the term Greek or other Anglicised word then we (whoever we are) could sue right back!
Modern Greek is just as close to old or classical Greek (and that's a PHD discussion) as modern English to German or Dutch (and that's another diss.) Throw in borrow words, pidgins, creoles and that and it gets complicated very quickly.
I won't deny that say, ichthphi ... (OK I searched, I can say it but not spell it) ... Ichthyophthirius is Greek derived and possibly one of the finest tongue-twisters known to man, casually thrashing physalis and the like. Closer to home, politics and other words derived from Greek (mostly an old version) are more familiar examples.
Language is always a tricksy thing. When I was a child I studied Latin, French, German and English. All to a greater or lesser extent. Now I'm 50+, I actually understand some of the interplay between them. That doesn't mean that I can speak German (bit sad - I lived in West Germany for some years) but I do understand why Wegburg and Waybury look suspiciously similar.
Nearly all languages these days are an amalgam. English is famous for "stealing" words but it isn't alone, by any means. Welsh borrows mercilessly from English for obvious reasons. However, what all languages have is some sort of cultural independence, be it accent, words, diacritics, alphabet, pronunciation or even sheer bloody mindedness.
I'll choose the nickname "Athena" for ChatGPT. Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and strategic thinking, which reflects the purpose and functionality of ChatGPT as an AI language model designed to provide information and assistance.
Funny how it didn't mention Athena is also the goddess of war...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...
Also, it's like when the country Iceland suing Iceland supermarkets chain, which is an ongoing dispute.
Not that it matters, really. The all-girls' Catholic school, Ursuline Academy of New Orleans, has a sorority system based on year of graduation. The classes/sororities were called Skips (Skipperettes), Macs (Merry Macs), Sioux, and Leps (Leprechauns). The school sought, and received, permission from the Sioux Nation to use the Sioux name. Despite this, after Black Lives Matter happened there was a nationwide reexamination of whiteness's impact on our culture, particularly with regard to cultural appropriation, and the decision was made to change the name of the Sioux class to Phoenixes (or Nix for short). So the Apache Software Foundation probably won't be named such for much longer.
https://trademarklawyermagazine.com/the-cold-never-bothered-...
Fortunately, it seems the country essentially won their case in December 2022 and the EU trademark has been cancelled. (“The monopolisation of a country name cannot lead to the inequitable situation in which traders with real and genuine connection to a certain geographic location are forced to constantly ‘look over their shoulder’ when referring to the real geographical origin of goods and service,” the summary documents say.)
It has even become a meme.
What does he really expect? That Jeff will go "Yeah, you got me, I was waiting for this, here are some billions of dollars to you" ?
[1] (Note it's from one year ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYeYCqsD1hg
Our guys are trying to create money ex nihilo.
And Walter Bright certainly deserves a royalty on every brightness control!
Every Greek yogourt container in Canada (and France) has my name plastered all over it - surely I deserve some cash!
Of course that's also the name of a town there, as well as the county it's in. That and it's the name of a local Native American tribe.
Companies should stop raising flags about ESG and Amazon rainforest and not do something about it.
There is also sn interesting anecdote about Apache devs, IBM and open source.
Now if Jeff and Co. had an issue with someone starting a company called 'A Amazonia', they defo would have a leg to stand on.
Anecdata, but for a native Russian speaker this is not a tongue twister at all. We borrowed quite a few letters for Cyrillic alphabet and have dedicated sounds for them. This word becomes a shorter "ихтиофтириус", which has a much nicer visual balance of vowels and consonants
This word is roughly pronounced "ick", "thee", "oh", "fuh", "thirius". The surprising thing in English is the ph-th bit - we only see that in Greek words and perhaps some Russian or other Cyrillic based borrow words.
When I look at it, we English use two letters for each of these phonemes: ph (fuh) and th (thuh). In Cyrillic I think you have a single letter: phi and theta (Greek) - I don't know the actual Russian names but it will be similar.
We can say fuh/thuh in a word as consecutive phonemes but it is rare.
> The surprising thing in English is the ph-th bit
Interesting! I thought it would be the "ch-thy" part since "ch" usually sounds "t-sh"-ish in English, like "child".
I wonder if in English this phoneme uses the "k" sound only for words like "chrysanthemum" or "chrysalis" borrowed from Greek-ish languages.
> I don't know the actual Russian names but it will be similar.
Actually "ф" is just "ph" as in Philadelphia and "т" is "t", very close to how it sounds in the word "term". I think the key difference is that the "th" (sounds like in "the", "they", etc.) phoneme is a separate letter so it's decoupled from "t".
Nah, closer to "ick-thee-off-thirius": https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/ichthyophthirius
> the surprising thing in English is the ph-th bit
Right, especially not having a vowel between them, because "f" -> "th" without an intervening vowel is very unusual in English.