Archives for June 3rd, 2004

The Venera Shop is like a box o chocolates, ya never know what ya gonna get.

I had to laugh when I saw this sign in Koper. In Slovene (and other Slavic languages, like Russian) venera means Venus. So, it’s entirely appropriate to have an erotic shop named after the Roman goddess of love. However, to an English speaker, “venera” sounds very much like “venereal”… as in “venereal disease.” (In Slovene: spolno prenosljive bolezni.)

And that sounds slightly less appealing.