# what the hell do these names mean **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-the-hell-do-these-names-mean/104214 **Category:** SON240sx Automotive **Created:** [March 4, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-the-hell-do-these-names-mean/104214 "2007-03-04T01:48:35Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 29
### Author: ![jammin1911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jammin1911](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jammin1911) #### Post date: [March 7, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-the-hell-do-these-names-mean/104214/29 "2007-03-07T14:48:48Z")
> [@Ah what one can find on EBAY](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ah-what-one-can-find-on-ebay/11554/18): > > I don’t like that comment John. Because that is one of the things that is wrong with our North American culture. We tend to change everything into English to suit our needs. Be it someone’s name, the name of a Country, a city, (eg. Munich -\> München; Cologne -\> [Köln](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/De-K%C3%B6ln.ogg)). > > Calling something by the name it was supposed to be called is not considered wrong; in my pont of view anyways. It is actually exteremely ignorant on our part to call things what we feel like calling them, or what we think is easier or more convenient for us. Cal, definitely a fair argument. Albeit slightly off topic, it’s a good debate in it’s own for sure. Maybe we could start up a proper mature debate in a separate thread about this in off-topic or something… Wait, this is SON so it probably won’t stay mature when the children start chiming in. But anyway, since I tend to disagree with your feelings towards converting things to english to suit our needs we can battle it out one day, like gentlemen. Are we on? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-the-hell-do-these-names-mean/104214)._