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Help[Opinions] Re: Nike
in reply to a message by Akua Topaz
No good as a name, because, goddess or no goddess, all it is to anybody in living memory is sneakers.
Reebok might be a real word with a different meaning than sneaker, but that doesn't make it any better as a name.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
Reebok might be a real word with a different meaning than sneaker, but that doesn't make it any better as a name.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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Well, I think that you'll find there are plenty of people in living memory who know that it's the goddess of victory, and think of the brand as a further development of that concept, and aren't vitally closer to one identification than the other. A lot of people are actually educated about this kind of thing - maybe not a large percentage of the population, but certainly a sizeable one enough to include "anybody in living memory."
It's totally not the same thing as Reebok at all.
Having typed out that all out, I just googled Reebok and found out that it's named after a type of antelope. Plenty of people probably know that, too. Foot in MOUTH! Granted, being the name of an antelope is different from being the name of a goddess, because it's traditional to use goddess names and not antelope names. Still - gyeesh.
It's totally not the same thing as Reebok at all.
Having typed out that all out, I just googled Reebok and found out that it's named after a type of antelope. Plenty of people probably know that, too. Foot in MOUTH! Granted, being the name of an antelope is different from being the name of a goddess, because it's traditional to use goddess names and not antelope names. Still - gyeesh.
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