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[Antonia Calvo]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Elaine Koogler wrote:
>
>> I think it's a matter of someone not speaking "the Queen's English" 
>> as their
>> first language.  It happens in a lot of languages...I don't recall 
>> what the
>> exact translation meant, but, for example, in Japan, they had to 
>> change the
>> Japanese version of the English name for Coca Cola as it came out 
>> meaning
>> something pretty awful.
>
> As I recall, some original ad copy, translated into Japanese, was 
> interpreted as "Coke restores life to your dead ancestors." Later, 
> when attempts were made to repair this unfortunate colloquial error, 
> it allegedly came out as, "Coke bites the wax tadpole." [The original 
> in English was "Coke adds life."]
>
> I'm not sure I believe the second part, but it's a commonly repeated 
> tale.

There's a good explanation of the "wax tadpole" bit on Snopes
http://snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp

> And then, of course, there were stories of the mysteriously low sales 
> numbers for the Chevrolet Nova automobile throughout the 
> Spanish-speaking world. While, technically, it does sort of sound like 
> "Chevy doesn't go", I find it hard to accept the idea that this is the 
> first thing anybody who thinks in Spanish, which is derived from 
> Latin, thinks when they hear that.

Another urban legend
http://snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp



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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo 

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