Talk:Joseph-Armand Bombardier

message: All the sources I have read on Joseph-Armand Bombardier indicate that he was entirely well and self-taught!  If he was a doctor I would like to know what kind, at the very least!!  AlainV 02:49, 2004 Mar 11 (UTC)
:Oh.  Maybe I'm wrong then.  My father told me he was a country doctor who found it hard to make housecalls in the snow so he invented the skiddoo.  But then again, my father gets a lot of things confused.  Sorry about that.  moink 02:58, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Self taught

message: Dumb, uni-lingual American here.  Heard the name of the company founded by Mr. Bombardier pronounced on a national network as "bom-ba-DEER." Is this the correct pronunciation?
:umm nope, i am from canada, and its pronounced "bom-bar-DI-ER" some of the times ppl say with with silent R at the end and a strong R at the middle so.. "bom-baR-DI-EE"
The above two statements regarding the pronunciation are NOT accurate. I have read his biography and I am related to Bombardier.
Bom‧bar‧dier  [bom-bahr-dyey]  Is the correct pronunciation. (I also have a last name of the same origin). The "dier" in French is pronounced "dyey". The alternate pronunciation is [bom-ber-deer]
:::Hahahahahahaha, coming from a French-Canadian background I couldn't help but laugh at this.  Think of the "ier" as 'ee' then 'é', as in Bom - bar - dee - ay.  Sandwiches99 23:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of Armand Bombardier 

message: So... in plain he seems to have been a self-taught engineer who hasn't invented something that wasn't done before - so much for his 'dream' of making the vehicle that floats on snow - but who had the inspiration and the lack of scrupuls to get subventions and merge with companies that were actually making something. And the new and improved company doesn't get a good/innovative rating anywhere I look. Just problems with subventions, bad manufacturing, bad design. I would not doubt if there would be problems with the intelectual piracy as well. 82.240.243.35 00:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you're right, they're just part of the Fortune Global 500, but hey, what does that matter, right?  As for the man himself, he created innovations, not inventions.  He expanded on ideas that already existed in order to tackle the issues in the area he lived in, then expanded THAT into a larger business in order to deal with a larger consumer base and therefore more customers.  As for intellectual piracy, what the hell are you talking about?  When did Bombardier run into problems regarding intellectual property laws?  Sandwiches99 23:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corporate propaganda 

message: Just a comment, this page is very hard to read. It is a word wall I guess. I am thinking about adding sections to make it easier to read.--Gordonrox24 (talk) 21:48, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bombardier

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