IKEA's Product Naming Explained in Hacker News Discussion
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What happened
A Hacker News discussion focused on an article about how IKEA comes up with names for its products. The excerpt notes that the names can sound strange even to Swedish speakers and are basically incomprehensible elsewhere, but fun. The community discussed the naming system and its cultural context.
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