I got a call from a woman who wanted to go to Capetown. started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information when she interrupted me with “I’m not trying to make you look stupid, but Cape Town is in Massachusetts.” Without trying to make her look
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Below are fine examples of what happens when marketing translations fail to reach a foreign country in an understandable way. Coors put its slogan, “Turn it loose,” into Spanish, where it was read as “Suffer from diarrhea.” Clairol introduced the “Mist Stick,” a curling iron, into German only to find
A LIGHTER LOOK AT MARRIAGE Getting married is very much like going to a continental restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that. At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, “Aren’t you wearing
A black guy walks into a tavern with a parrot on his shoulder…the bartender looks up and says ” where the hell did you get that thing? The Parrot replies ” Over in Africa, there’s millions of them “ !!!!
Two shoe salespeople were sent to Africa to open up new markets. Three days after arriving, one salesperson called the office and said, “I’m returning on the next flight. Can’t sell shoes here. Everybody goes barefoot.” At the same time the other salesperson sent an email to the factory, telling
A black guy walks into a tavern with a parrot on his shoulder…thebartender looks up and says ” where the hell did you get that thing?The Parrot replies ” Over in Africa, there’s millions of them ” !!!!
MarriageGetting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, “Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?”