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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Canadian French CBC radio had a broadcast station called eSpace musique... pronounced "ass pass".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a pun. "Space" in French is "espace" - it's more of a schwa+s than "a+s" so "eSpace" is the everyday French word espace but with a capital S to make a visual pun on e- prefix for electronic.

it'd be like calling an online property maintenance service eState (estate like property + electronic state for maintenance)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Wow I'm really impressed with the equivalent example you came up with, it explains it perfectly.