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juvera
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Some companies do their homework Feb 9, 2008

Your comments are all true to a certain extent, but I have been asked a number of times to evaluate the meaning, sound, connotations, pronunciation etc. of names intended for product to be marketed by English companies in foreign countries.
 
Nicole Schnell
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Same here. Feb 9, 2008

juvera wrote:

Your comments are all true to a certain extent, but I have been asked a number of times to evaluate the meaning, sound, connotations, pronunciation etc. of names intended for product to be marketed by English companies in foreign countries.


I will also notify the client if the product name might have some highly interesting and unintentional connotations for the target audience.

Recently I was assigned the product name creation for a series of children's board games for the German market. Fun!! And quite a challenge.

In 2006 I published an article about this very topic in a US advertising magazine - I will post this one with the Proz.com articles, I guess.
 
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