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in reply to a message by jessica_p
A friend of mine adopted an African child named Rosetta... Don't think her original parents umpteen years ago were thinking of the computer program).
Amazing how society will take an otherwise ok name and cause unnecessary associations with things that may not appeal so much, eh.
Amazing how society will take an otherwise ok name and cause unnecessary associations with things that may not appeal so much, eh.
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I'd also like to point out....
Almost no one seems to remember that there was another Rosetta Stone long before the computer program: a large granite stone, discovered in the early 19th century with Greek text, Demotic text, and Egyptian hieroglyphics. This was all the same text written in different forms, and therefore, because people already understood Greek, it became our main tool in understanding hieroglyphics. See why they picked the name for a language software?
Almost no one seems to remember that there was another Rosetta Stone long before the computer program: a large granite stone, discovered in the early 19th century with Greek text, Demotic text, and Egyptian hieroglyphics. This was all the same text written in different forms, and therefore, because people already understood Greek, it became our main tool in understanding hieroglyphics. See why they picked the name for a language software?
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Yep... I'd heard of the stone before, but still... Sometimes company and product names twist our images of a particular name that would otherwise be treated as normal.
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Like what happened with Allegra. I still love it but most have too strong association of it as an allergy medicine
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