How did the letter i become so prominent in product naming? Lower case at that. And what exactly does it stand for? Idea? "'I' can't put my name on this product but 'I' thought of it!"?
Drop an i in front of "Phone" and now everyone knows you have an Apple product of obvious utility. But how did "Pod" come to mean a music player? If Apple made a line of kitchen appliances, would we have an iFridge? Or maybe the coffee maker could be an iOpener!
i think this all started with BMW. 328i. 530i. i used to think the "i" designation meant it was something special (although there is still no obvious reference as to what it stands for) until I realized that letter i was on every freakin' Bimmer!
Hey - this gives me an idea...
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I . . .I . . .I . . why is it always about you? I really don't think the "i" originated from the sources that you indicate, but instead came as part of the evolution of "e" as in "electronic. Think of e-Commerce, and e-Tailing, and eBay, etc. Guess your assumption was wrong, you aSS.
i thought you might e-ventually make a point but i guess you chose not to. If e e-volved to i, what happened to f, g and h?
I know what happened to the f anyway, but I digress.
Ever wonder how we ended up with 26 letters in the alphabet anyway? Think about it. Why 26? Why not a more even number like 20 or 30? Seems like there really is no logic. In fact, I'm sure it's frustating to those who have a wide vocubulary like me and have to make do with the limited number of letters. If you can calculate the various permutations of 26 letters, you naively would assume that we have enough, but then you're the type of person who invented "it's hot" into popular vernacular.
There should be a letter for every sound. To me, c seems pretty useless when you consider that it sounds like either k or s. But then, someone thought to add an h to it and created a whole new sound. Since k and s already handle the basic c sounds, why not simply make c sound like ch?
That sounds like chit to me.
I have always been curious about combinations of letters that sound differently depending on the words that it contains. For example: Kansas and ArKANSAS or even Texas and your an Ass.
I'm sorry but I didn't reseive, nor did I kare about, whatever cildish message you were trying to send.
That's because you are a moroon.
Oh yeah? You're yellow!
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