adric22 said:...I'm still to this day baffled as to why Nissan wanted to put the "zero emissions" label on the car. This troubles me for 2 reasons. First reason is that it seems to go along with the assumption that only environmentalists concerned about emissions would buy such a car. Second reason is that I suspect a lot of people have no idea what "zero emissions" actually even means. If they had put a logo something like electric, electric vehicle, 100% electric, electric drive, battery electric, etc... that would go a lot further to explaining what the car is when people walk next to one in a parking lot.
TEG said:Even stranger, it is "zero emission" not "emissions"...
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In the Japanese language, they don't use 's' to denote plurals. For example, if there are 12 apples on a table, they say there are 12 apple.
There's a concept of plurals, but they don't modify the noun itself. In Japanese, nearly every non-proper noun is implicitly a mass noun -- i.e., a noun that has no separate plural form on its own, like 'moose' in English -- but it still gets modified into what might as well conceptually be a plural by use of a counter, a josuushi. There are counters for flat objects, long objects, stories, games, people, pieces of sushi, etc. So '12 apples' could be written as 'ringo juunika' -- literally, 'apple 12-fruit.'LEAFfan said:In the Japanese language, they don't use 's' to denote plurals. For example, if there are 12 apples on a table, they say there are 12 apple.
Mark510 said:An interesting observation: Women seem to ask intelligent questions and be more interested in it. Either they love it because it is green or are fascinated by it and think its a smart move. From the reactions I've seen so far, Nissan should focus some marketing attention on women.
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