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Re: Translated car names/Elva info?

To: jim hayes <jeh@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Translated car names/Elva info?
From: Mark Donaldson <markhd@voyager.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 22:38:41 -0800
jim hayes wrote:
> 
> The list of disasters goes on and on in advertising "halls of shame", like
> the slogan "Come alive with Pepsi" of a few years ago that translated in SA
> to "Pepsi brings you back from the dead", but the best was in today's
> papers: Reebok named a women's running shoe "Incubus", an evil spirit that
> sexually attacks sleeping women. That really gets the "idiot gene of the
> year award"!
> 
> jeh@fotec.com         http://www.fotec.com/jim.htm
> veni, vidi, veloce   

OK
How about the Russian language computer that translated the phrase 
"out of sight, out of mind" 
as "blind and mad"?

Mark Donaldson



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