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Subject: Re: Direct Translations
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Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 09:01:11 EDT
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Or when Pepsi tried translating "Pepsi Comes Alive" into Chinese and it came
out "Pepsi brings your ancestors back to life".

Or the detergent billboard in Iran that showed dirty laundry on the left, the
detergent in the middle, and clean laundry on the right.  Sales plummeted, and
no one could figure out why.  Finally someone remembered that people read from
right to left in the middle east.