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Thread Number: 14288
Where Did HE Washers Get Thier Names? |
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Post# 244251 , Reply# 1 10/23/2007 at 19:21 (6,028 days old) by sudsmaster  (SF Bay Area, California) |
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| Post# 244290 , Reply# 2 10/23/2007 at 23:52 (6,028 days old) by oxydolfan1 () | ||
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Isn't a camry a bird? | ||
| Post# 244308 , Reply# 3 10/24/2007 at 02:53 (6,028 days old) by brettsomers () | ||
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do you REALLY need Oasis explained? or Epic? or Neptune? i think "Duet" may have been Whirlpools way to suggest that the Duet washer and matching dryer were a system that worked best with only each other, no? | ||
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Post# 244351 , Reply# 4 10/24/2007 at 10:34 (6,027 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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| Post# 244355 , Reply# 5 10/24/2007 at 11:29 (6,027 days old) by cycla-fabric (New Jersey (Northern)) | ||
CAMRY Definition  | ||
| Post# 244372 , Reply# 6 10/24/2007 at 12:48 (6,027 days old) by aldspinboy (Philadelphia, Pa) | ||
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| Post# 244382 , Reply# 7 10/24/2007 at 14:08 (6,027 days old) by lavamat78800 () | ||
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Bauknecht In Germany, there are no DUET-washers sold! Only those Dreamspaces! | ||
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Post# 244457 , Reply# 9 10/24/2007 at 21:17 (6,027 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Cycla-Fabric comes closest to what Camry means, but the reality is that "Camry" deliberately has no meaning. It reflects a school of thought in product naming, especially among Japanese car makers, to find words that don't exist in any language and use these synthetic words to name their products. The reasons include: a new name may mean something embarrassing in some language; the product name may be the same or too similar to an existing product, leading to copyright/trademark infringement lawsuits; a name that is a real word may elicit emotional responses in the targeted customer base, interfering with the effort to sell the product based on its intrinsic merits. Toyota seems to be at the forefront of the bland, meaningless, neutral name game. In addition to Camry, there's Solara, Prius (alas, I always think of priapus, lol), Yaris, for example. Other nonsense car names may include Ciera (you betcha), Justy, Sienna, Vega, Fiero... the list goes on and on. As for HE washer names... they don't really have to mean anything. Sometimes they just seem to evoke water (Neptune) or clean (Oasis) or friendly (Affinity) or quality (Crown, Imperial) or something like that, in a vague sort of way. Some washer mfg's, like some car mfg's, just sidestep the whole name game by givng their products various numbers. As in Miele 4840. Not sure where Whirlpool got the Cabrio name. Were they intending to parody Leonardo de Cabrio? LOL. | ||
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Post# 244504 , Reply# 12 10/25/2007 at 03:00 (6,027 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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That would be the Chevy Nova | ||
| Post# 244600 , Reply# 15 10/25/2007 at 14:58 (6,026 days old) by funguy10 () | ||
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I'm not trying to put anyone down but this is a washing machine site. If you want to talk about the name origins of cars, make a thread in the Super(off-topic) forum. | ||
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Post# 244602 , Reply# 16 10/25/2007 at 15:24 (6,026 days old) by nurdlinger (Tucson AZ) |
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America's Changing Its Name to NiXXon... | ||
| Post# 244607 , Reply# 17 10/25/2007 at 16:08 (6,026 days old) by funguy10 () | ||
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Nope. Only washing machine, dryer, and dishwasher fans. I don't know what a NatLamp is but you should post about it in the Super(Yellow) forum. | ||
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Post# 244624 , Reply# 18 10/25/2007 at 18:15 (6,026 days old) by nurdlinger (Tucson AZ) |
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| Post# 244749 , Reply# 19 10/26/2007 at 13:01 (6,025 days old) by dascot (Scotland) | ||
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FunGuy - It's called subject drift :) It's not like the thread was started about cars, just happened to be a drift in the subject of daft names things are called... | ||
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Post# 244902 , Reply# 21 10/27/2007 at 22:02 (6,024 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Sh!t-taco
Back in the 80's a friend of mine sort of inherited a brown VW Scirocco. Unfortunately it was the victim of bad steel/bad paint/bad weather, and was covered with silver dollar size patches of rust where the paint had failed (and this was a California car). I remember having to tow it once. It was so repulsive (and unreliable) his friends took to calling it the "Sh!t-taco". LOL. | ||
| Post# 244915 , Reply# 24 10/27/2007 at 23:47 (6,024 days old) by miele4848 () | ||
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Cabrio Cabrio (french cabriolet, from cabrioler= to cut a caper) So this maybe describes the feeling you have, when you use your wascher or maybe it refers to the wasch action like in case of the calypso! | ||
| Post# 244930 , Reply# 25 10/28/2007 at 06:22 (6,023 days old) by lavamat78800 () | ||
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Bosch Nexxt Just a suggestion: Bosch next generation. | ||
| Post# 244933 , Reply# 26 10/28/2007 at 06:55 (6,023 days old) by funguy10 () | ||
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Calypso Wash Motion? A Calypso is another word for a Caribean steel drum. A Calypso beat is a song where this steel drum is playing. How does this relate to the Calypso washer? | ||
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Post# 244936 , Reply# 27 10/28/2007 at 07:13 (6,023 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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It doesn't | ||
| Post# 245006 , Reply# 28 10/28/2007 at 17:01 (6,023 days old) by miele4848 () | ||
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Calypso Is a music style and the including dance. And also a nymph. Whirlpool used calypso music for their washer comercial and a lady dancing like the agitator, with steeldrums in the backround as far as I remember. | ||
| Post# 245008 , Reply# 29 10/28/2007 at 17:21 (6,023 days old) by miele4848 () | ||
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Calypso Is a music style and the including dance. And also a nymph. Whirlpool used calypso music for their washer comercial and a lady dancing like the agitator, with steeldrums in the backround as far as I remember. | ||
| Post# 245026 , Reply# 30 10/28/2007 at 19:42 (6,023 days old) by funguy10 () | ||
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I don't mean to insult you but you posted that twice. | ||
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Post# 245066 , Reply# 31 10/28/2007 at 22:59 (6,023 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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| Post# 246205 , Reply# 33 11/4/2007 at 07:57 (6,016 days old) by funguy10 () | ||
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That's what I wonder. | ||
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