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darth_aardvarkyesterday at 5:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

Unlikely, since modern Hebrew doesn't have a letter for "w".


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bonesssyesterday at 5:23 PM

Is it possible the foreignness makes ‘W’ appealing as it signals cool modern tech alignment or something?

Like how ‘X’ attracts marketing and typographic knuckle-draggers in English, or how all our AI companies have butthole logos for reasons that only make sense if you understand the underlying companies and culture.

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1-moreyesterday at 6:44 PM

It has vav which gets transliterated as v, u, o, or w. How does the average modern Hebrew speaker pronounce these company names in a sentence? Vix, Vayz, Viz? Is the "w" transliteration an example of Latin to Hebrew transliteration but not vice-versa?

0_____0yesterday at 5:54 PM

Oof, you got me there!