Congratulations on being a whole lot smarter than me :) (don't worry about it, you probably share that distinction with a large part of the population of the planet).
And is there any take on this being an oversight or was it on purpose ?
But within a week of the new engine being announced (or rather renamed) it was pointed out by TC and other news outlets.
none taken, hence the :)
> But within a week of the new engine being announced (or rather renamed) it was pointed out by TC and other news outlets.
I completely missed that, I was pretty busy with other stuff when bing launched.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632022
commented on plausible interpretations of "bing" as a Chinese word. Without tone markings, it's hard to know whether joking that it means "ice" makes more sense than joking that it means "sick," and in any event the official Microsoft rendering of "Bing" in Chinese turns the pronunciation into "bi ying," as indicated in the link above.