Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!microsof!fluke!witters From: witters@fluke.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Direct Translations Message-ID: <343@vax1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 09:01:11 EDT Article-I.D.: vax1.343 Posted: Mon Jun 27 09:01:11 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jun-83 08:31:06 EDT Lines: 7 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.