Re:Nikola Motor Company
by daveguy on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:06AM
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Heaviside would be a very negative connotation for trucks and ATVs. Most people would think heavy-side or top-heavy, which is the opposite of what you want a truck to be, and not Heaviside the engineer who lent his name to the punniest function in mathematics.
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Or they might think heavy-industry or heavy-duty, which would be a good/neutral connotation.
...and heavy has stopped looking like a real word now.
Re:Nikola Motor Company
by robin_reala on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:12PM
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Semantic satiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
Interesting page! It links to what is now my new favorite wiki page name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
Re:Nikola Motor Company
by robin_reala on Friday May 13, 2016 @11:26AM
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You might also like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_... then.
Heavy in relation to trucks is usually linked with "heavy duty" which is a good thing. Many truck manufacturers use "heavy duty" in their branding.