>Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:39:39 -0500 >From: Michael Townsend <townsend@RTP.ERICSSON.SE> >Subject: Re: ungainly? van > >Those look really good, although I have a marketing question: How come >they >are named after States in the USA? > Things with American names are considered desirable in Europe, just as anything named 'Euro' is thought of as desirable in the USA. When selling a product in the USA, a popular sales pitch is 'its all the rage in Europe', similarly in Europe they say 'its all the rage in the USA'. Often its the same product, and is the rage in neither place. |
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