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When the KFC slogan 'Finger lickin' good' was first translated into chinese it became 'Eat your fingers off!'. Coca-cola translated into chinese becomes 'Bite the wasx tadpole'.
Any other translation bloopers?

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Hah! That's great!

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Posted: 9th Sep 2007 20:29 Edited at: 9th Sep 2007 20:30
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When Coca-Cola was first sold in China, its erstwhile slogan "Coke adds life" was translated into Chinese. The Chinese ideograms, when translated back into English, read "Coke brings your ancestors back from the dead". This might have affected the sales.

one example of many funny bloopers

go here: http://www.all-languages.com/bloopers.html
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Posted: 9th Sep 2007 20:34
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In China or Japan - Dr No --> we don't want doctor
don't remember where (maybe Spain?) - I've seen the Pope --> I've seen the potato

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Posted: 9th Sep 2007 20:46 Edited at: 9th Sep 2007 20:47
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Colgate toothpaste = "go hang yourself" in Argentine Spanish.



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http://moronland.net/moronia/moron/1064/?

Here is a good list that i saw on Digg!

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Quote: "don't remember where (maybe Spain?) - I've seen the Pope --> I've seen the potato
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Well, In Spain "potato" its translated as "patata", in Canary islands (were I am) we say "Papa" instead of "patata" , and yeah in Spanish "pope" its traslated as "papa" ,however "The Pope" its translated as "El Papa" (male) and "the potato" as "La papa" (female) so its impossible to us get confused anyways...

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Years ago, I bought an electronic kit that had alligator clips. The Chinese reference called them crocodile clips...

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Whats so different? They're basicily the same.

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Posted: 9th Sep 2007 22:31 Edited at: 9th Sep 2007 22:54
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No, crocodiles speak german, eat plants and have internal combustion engines that enables low orbit space travel.

Didn't they teach you anything in school?




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Quote: "Years ago, I bought an electronic kit that had alligator clips. The Chinese reference called them crocodile clips..."

That isn't a translation error. The eglish version is crocodile clips too. We have to be unique, you know. After all, we invented the language.
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When you have finished vomiting, wash your mouse out. If you can, eat, eat!

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The chevy car Nova when sold in Mexico never sold well because, No Va means doesn't go in spanish.
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Posted: 11th Sep 2007 03:43 Edited at: 11th Sep 2007 03:46
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Quote: "When the KFC slogan 'Finger lickin' good' was first translated into chinese it became 'Eat your fingers off!'. Coca-cola translated into chinese becomes 'Bite the wasx tadpole'."


http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp

Quote: "The chevy car Nova when sold in Mexico never sold well because, No Va means doesn't go in spanish."


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

Funny, but false

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I've always heard the same thing about the Nova.


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Negative.
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Quote: "Funny, but false "


Aww man.
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Nova its a Latin word for "new" and also in Spanish is a cataclysmic nuclear explosion caused by the accretion of hydrogen onto the surface of a white dwarf star (wikipedia), it just mean the same as English. There´s such a huge difference between "Nova" and "No vá" the pronunciation its different just notice the accent in "No vá"...

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Quote: "have internal combustion engines"

Alligators have External engines that run on unleaded.

Uhhhhhhh.... I forgot
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Posted: 11th Sep 2007 23:02 Edited at: 13th Sep 2007 03:24
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when selling the car nova, in some country in meant "it doesnt go." literally.

EDIT: wrong!

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Quote: "External engines"

They are pulse-jets?


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Quote: "when selling the car nova, in some country in meant "it doesnt go." literally."



Did we cover that or not?


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a "black hole" in German is definitely not something you'd find in space.

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There is a site called engrish.com thats full of translation boo boos... its fun.

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Quote: "when selling the car nova, in some country in meant "it doesnt go." literally."


It looks like I´m talking to walls or something it doesn't mean "it doesn't go", "nova" its a word and "no vá" its other (in fact 2 words BTW), even we don't use "no vá" to say "doesn't go"...

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^You shouldn't talk to walls, people might think you're crazy.

And Zerk, i posted a link to that site earlier in this thread. I even wrote the sentence there in Engrish-style.

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sorry, read it in a book and i dont know that language you speak of. I\'m an a-hole. agreed?

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Dont worry man


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worry? im just saying that i didnt know what i was talking about. Im not stoned or anything

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I just meant I accept you apologies.

anyways my reply was a bit rude, sorry.

Cheers


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