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From: kscott@ucsfcgl.UUCP (George Seibel%Kollman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Coca Cola and the Chinese market (a true story)
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 17:40:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 17:40:17 1986
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In article <910@rlgvax.UUCP> oz@rlgvax.UUCP (THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ) writes:
>
>They hired a firm that specializes in such matters who came up with something
>that sounded like "Coca Cola" (I'm afraid that my memory isn't good enough
>to remember what it was) which translates as "The mouth rejoices" and sales
>have been very good.
>
>That was considerably better then Cokes original choice which also sounded
>somewhat like "Coca Cola" but instead translated as "Bite the wax tadpole."
>

  Definitely an improvement over another phonetic translation they had,
"Fat From an Ox".  The adveritsing people also needed to get a good translator,
their first advertisements, based on the "Coke adds life" slogan, came out
as "Coke will bring back from the dead".   -Source National Lampoon True
column, sometime in 81.

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