You Americans seem to have your own names for
everything. Is this just your way of saying you are
better than anybody else?
eg. Asahi ~ Honeywell
MZ-30 ~ ZX-30
MZ-50 ~ ZX-50
Minolta X500 ~ Minolta X570
Manfrotto ~ Bogen
Drive on LHS of road ~ Drive on RHS of road
Colour ~ Color
Plough ~ Plow
What's the deal with this?
Jody.
--- "Daniel J. Matyola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Asahi initiallyused Honeywell to market Pentax
> cameras in the US for several
> reasons:
>
> 1. Honeywell was a recognized brand name, but Asahi
> was not yet.
> 2. Americans still thought of Japan as the source
> of "cheap" good, not yet
> realizing that Japanese could make elctronics and
> optics as well as the
> Europeans and better than Americans.
> 3. WWII was then a recent event, and resentment
> from veterans to Japanese
> products was still commpn, expecially for brand
> names like Asahi, which means
> "rising sun" or "morning sun."
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