>>> 7. A Miami T-shirt maker printed shirts for the Spanish market which
>>> promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of printing "El Papa" (the Pope) they
>>> printed "La Papa" (the potato).
I fail to see the error....
June ;-)
> >
> >> 8. Pepsi's "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi
> >
> >> Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in Chinese.
> >
> >> 9. The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning
> >
> >> "Bite the wax tadpole" (Manadarin) or "female horse stuffed with wax"
> >
> >> (Cantonese). Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic
> >
> >> equivalent "kokou kole", translating into "happiness in the mouth".
> >
> >> 10. Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "It takes a strong man to make a tender
> >
> >> chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make
> >a
> >
> >> chicken affectionate."
> >
> >> 11. When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were
> >
> >> supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you."
> >
> >> The company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to
> >
> >> embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you
> >
> >> pregnant!".
> >
> >> 12. When American Airlines wanted to advertise its new leather first
> >class
> >
> >> seats in the Mexican market, it translated its "Fly In Leather" campaign
> >
> >> literally, which meant "Fly Naked" (vuela en cuero) in Spanish!
>
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