Oh no, not again, like we didn't see enough of this "clever" Greek flavour when the movie "My Big Fat GRΣΣK Wedding" came out.
Few things annoy me as much as faux greek, but faux cyrillic and heavy metal bands idiot use of cool "umlauts" are right up there with it.
Us arty folks already have a bit of an idiot reputation, what with some "silly art school" behind us where no "real subjects" were studied, and lets not forget that the clients nephew has a mac so he can probably "whip something up". Do not cement our reputation as fools with stuff like this, please. They'll let copywriters get away with calling calling a chimpanzee a "monkey", but that's because they don't know any better themselves. (Here's a trick for you who don't know the difference between an ape and a monkey, monkeys have tails). With three million Americans residents in the United States that claim Greek descent and god knows how many ex-college kids that learned at least some of the letters (enough to join a fraternity or sorority at least), you might just be insulting someones intelligence when you're trying to be smart. If you're unlucky, you'll be insulting the client. Stop it.
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What does GRSSK mean?
You have to bear in mind, that the client likely TOLD them to do it that way, probably because of "My Big, Fat GRΣΣK Wedding".
Also, unfortunately, some monkeys do not have tails - the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is one, and is often called (miscalled) the Barbary ape (famously from Gibraltar). [They are the only free-roaming monkeys in Europe].
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Permalink*arrgh* Outnerded again!
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PermalinkÅsk (I still don't really know how to pronounce it):
I just knew that some monkeys were tailless** (old song: "Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga..", possibly originating around 1900-1906), and used Google and Wikipedia to confirm an example.
(By the way, although some people think that the song was insulting the islanders [Zamboanga is part of the Philippines], because they "scurried like monkeys up the trees to get cocoanuts"; there are actually tailless monkeys in Zamboanga).
** ==> It's just one of those almost useless bits of information (which I carry tons of) -
- like knowing what a nictitating membrane is;
- or that E=mc2 [the '2' should be supered to show that 'c' is squared], is not the full equation, nor the most important one of the Theory of Special Relativity [the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction is also very important];
- that Todd Rundgren (originally from about 3 miles from my home, growing up) was in Woody's Truckstop, before being in the Nazz, before going solo with the Runt album, and now tours as part of the New Cars band;
- or that Crusader Rabbit was the first episodic TV cartoon series ever [at least here in the USA] (and I'm old enough to have seen it, over and over again, although only in reruns).
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PermalinkYou still win, I've seen Allan1 call you "Ask". Looked like grΣΣk to me.
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PermalinkTsss. Good point though. Åsk is the name. Ask is the first man on earth, a tree or a small box. ;)
But that brings me back to the heavy metal umlaut-lurve. There was once a "cool" band called Trojan that figured they had to do the Motorhead thing, so they added two dots to the O, and became "Tröjan". a.k.a "the sweater/the t-shirt" in Swedish. HA! I need to get that tour-t-shirt, it's hilarious.
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