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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:36:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-14, Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote:

> I read somewhere a (possibly apocryphal) story that the Chevy "Nova" was
> unpopular in Mexico because "no va" means "it won't go" in Spanish.

I don't doubt that somebody sniggered over it.  I'll point out,
though, that the Spanish word for "nova", is, well, "nova".

And I see there's a note about this in the expected place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevy_II_/_Nova#Urban_legend

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de