Over the past few months, I have been using computer monitors at work from a brand I hadn’t known before. Its logo looks like this:
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Every time I look at it I can't help reading the Russian word for a moose - лось (well - with the last character missing). After some internet search I eventually found out the manufacturer's name: it is AOC.
I still think that an "A" without the horizontal bar is not an "A". Such a modification may even impact reading of adjacent characters...
For the heck of it I consulted the AI of my choice and asked what it thought of my finding:
Q: I use AOC monitors at work. Have you noticed that the AOC logo looks almost like the Russian word for a moose? Only the "soft sign" is missing. Is this a coincidence? The "A" in the logo does not have the horizontal bar so it looks like the Russian "L".
A:
AI wrote:(...)
As for whether this is intentional — there’s no evidence that AOC (the Taiwanese electronics brand, originally called Admiral Overseas Corporation) designed their logo with that resemblance in mind. It’s almost certainly a coincidence, but a funny and linguistically neat one.So your brain’s not playing tricks — the AOC logo really does read like “ЛOC”, which makes Russian speakers think of a moose missing its soft sign.
