In my High School days, I dropped my girlfriend off at her house. She exited the car, and as I reached over to pull the passenger door closed, I yelled after her, "Je t'adore!". She turned around, put her hand on her hip and shot back "Shut it yourself!"
A relative of mine was forced to change his last name when he got married, because his new wife could not use it in public. In her native language, the name was a four-letter unprintable word.
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That's not a coincidence. For Russian, it's a borrowed word (don't know about German). If we count all the borrowed words in all languages as similar-sounding examples... Let's not go there.
There was a web site hosting company a few years back called WeAreNTHosting.net, but when rendered in lowercase, they found out why business was not so good.
No urban legend here, I saw the ads.
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Nippon (or Nihon) is the Japanese name for Japan.
Outside of Japan, Nippon is usually known as the constitutional monarchy ruling the Japanese archipelago.
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Well, I'm from Germany and have heard it quite often. Whenever one finds it appropriate to use the native name of a country, Japan is referred to as Nippon.
See:
[ul][li]All Nippon Airways [/li]
[li]The Nippon foundation[/li]
[li]Nippon News[/li]
...
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A quick search will give you sufficient results.
Haiiii!
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