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From: co20wta@sdcc3.UUCP (Bruce Jones)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Re: Coca Cola and the Chinese market
Message-ID: <3187@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 14:35:36 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcc3.3187
Posted: Mon Mar 10 14:35:36 1986
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References: <4294@ut-sally.UUCP> <1100017@umn-cs.UUCP>
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In article <1100017@umn-cs.UUCP> herndon@umn-cs.UUCP writes:
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>It seems that they [Exxon] tried to market gasoline in Japan
>under the "Enco" brandname, and that a japanese word pronounced
>something like "Inko" means "stalled car".
>
In Mexico the state petroleum company is called "Pemex" and their
brand of regular gas is "Nova".  In Spanish "va" is a verb that
means "it goes"  and no means the same thing as it does in English.