Bizarre News - Truth In Advertising

[Insanity_97]

Bizarre News - Truth In Advertising:

These are some nominees for the Chevy Nova Award. This is
given out in honor of the GM's fiasco in trying to market
this car in Central and South America. "No va" means, of
course, in Spanish, "it doesn't go".

* The Dairy Association's huge success with the campaign
"Got Milk?" prompted them to expand advertising to Mexico.
It was soon brought to their attention the Spanish transla-
tion read "Are you lactating?"

* Coors put its slogan, "Turn It Loose," into Spanish, where
it was read as "Suffer From Diarrhea."

* When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used
the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on
the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies
routinely put pictures on the labels of what's inside, since
many people can't read.

* An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the
Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of
"I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I Saw the
Potato" (la papa).

* Pepsi's "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation" translated
into "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in
Chinese.

* The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela",
meaning "Bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with
wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000
characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokou kole",
translating into "happiness in the mouth."

[clawhammer]

I actually heard about this on some show on TLC which investigates Urban legends, not sure what it's called, and on there they said that this is just a legend, not true.

[King Cuda]

Bite the Wax Tadpole

[eversio11]

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/ancestor.asp

[dirtydx]

those seem pretty far out??



i tried translating.. here's my results

No va - no goes
Got Milk? - The milk obtained?
Turn it Loose - Rotate it Loosens.

[FairyDust]

Originally Posted by clawhammer

I actually heard about this on some show on TLC which investigates Urban legends, not sure what it's called, and on there they said that this is just a legend, not true.

yeah I was wondering cause like the translations you'd think they'd ask a few people who are fluent in both to make sure the translation was correct.

Although its funny, especially the baby food one, I doubt its true.