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0 pointsQuantumNomad_6mo ago0 comments

But it does matter. I’m not sure if you are already aware and did it intentionally or if it was a happy accident, but FEJKA really is named that because it’s a real word in Swedish that comes from English with meaning very near to how you used it there.

Swedish adjective “fejk” comes from English adjective “fake”.

Swedish “fejka” is the verb form of the same, with the meaning similar to one of the English meanings of the verb form: To give the impression that something is a certain way when it is not.

And that’s what the FEJKA series of products happen to be. Artificial plants that look like they are real, even though they are not :)

And so back to the point of naming these pretend IKEA manuals. If they are to really look real without being real, they should be named in a way that would make even swedes second guess whether they might be real manuals. (When seen in a context where it was not immediately stated that they are imitations.)

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TeMPOraL6mo ago

> I’m not sure if you are already aware and did it intentionally or if it was a happy accident, but FEJKA really is named that because it’s a real word in Swedish that comes from English with meaning very near to how you used it there.

I guessed as much; I'm Polish but know enough English that I burst into laughter when I first saw a fake plant labeled FEJKA in a local IKEA store. In fact, I couldn't believe they'd be this direct with naming. But then I don't know enough Swedish to translate the other names.

(Still wonder what kind of geopolitical order they meant when they named their wardrobe system PAX. Or is it just because you can pack absurd amount of things into it?)

> If they are to really look real without being real, they should be named in a way that would make even swedes second guess whether they might be real manuals. (When seen in a context where it was not immediately stated that they are imitations.)

Fair enough. I was just making an unsophisticated joke about the FEJKA line :).

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