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Old 04-20-12, 11:50 AM
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Mitsubishi Pajero = 'the masturbator'
I fell out of my seat
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Old 04-20-12, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by -J-P-L-
So are most asians taught the English characters growing up to at least recognize/read branding?

It's not easy learning 2 fundamentally differently languages and yet it seems they're forced to.
Most Asian countries and a lot of countries world wide, students learn English in school at an early age in conjunction with their native tongue.
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Old 04-20-12, 04:31 PM
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They all have meanings as you probably already know. I hope you can read Japanese.

http://sapporo.ojiji.net/space/

But, the majority of people here think that the English alphabet looks better. And for your information China replaces a lot of car names with Kanji. I know most of Toyatos cars have their names replaced with Kanji.
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Originally Posted by Hoovey2411
I fell out of my seat
Yup, I always make fun to Mitsubishi Pajero owners. I really don't know why they can't change it to Montero worldwide.
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In USSR most our cars were named in Russian, but sometimes badges were spelled with Latin letters. But for the most part, they were badged in Russian as well.

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