Comments on: Let’s play decode the Dunglish

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:35:08 +0000

I’m Dutch and I didn’t even realize this was supposed to be a pun, even though I knew it was an insurance company. I just thought it was some random weird name, like all companies seem to have these days.

Also, Natashka, in response to comment #15: Dutch people can be very scary… <_<

By: Frederieke

Frederieke — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:54:24 +0000

The logo looks more like a sixty-niner to me…

By: Natashka

Natashka — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:40:20 +0000

Sounds like a contradiction in terms And the idea that anything brown coloured is bastard-like scares me.

By: Branko Collin

Branko Collin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:34:39 +0000

Speaking of bastard English, what is ‘bastard sugar’ in English, and what would happen to you if you addressed people with those words outside a Young Ones sketch?

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:14:03 +0000

Oh, look – an English-speaking company punning on ‘ensure’ and ’share’:

http://www.rockwellautomation.com/solutions/conditionmonitoring/surveillance.html

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:57:44 +0000

‘You say ‘in Sjoerd’ as if it there were no other options’

Such as? ‘In shirt’?

It doesn’t seem unlikely to me that an English-speaking company would try to play on ’share/sure’.

Even in the heaviest comedy-Dutch accent, ‘inshared’ doesn’t suggest ‘insured’; I don’t think the name arises from Dunglish pronunciation, just a cutesy attempt to prove that someone’s English skills (sort of) extend to wordplay.

By: Tup

Tup — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:23:47 +0000

This ‘in sjoerd / in tjeerd’ thing reminds me of Veronica renaming themselves to Yorin / Urine back in the nineties.

By: Natashka

Natashka — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:43:13 +0000

@Larry You say ‘in Sjoerd’ as if it there were no other options

By: Invader_Stu

Invader_Stu — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:54:01 +0000

I never would have got it in a million years.

By: Rene

Rene — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:01:56 +0000

@Natashka: I’m sorry, but I think the international Tele2 campaign is Norwegian: http://www.smfb.com
But I don’t know if they are responsible for the irritating cheap/sheep/goedkoop ‘wordplay’.