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 Post subject: Microsoft's "Little" Screw-ups
PostPosted: Fri 08-20-2004 2:48PM 
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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5316664.html

Pay attention to third paragraph from bottom of article.

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this happens all the time to companies who hire a dumbass translator, to introduce a product into a new country.

The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the phrase means "bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax" depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, "ko-kou-ko-le," which can be loosely translated as "happiness in the mouth."

this is hilarious though "A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation."


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lordoftheworld wrote:
this is hilarious though "A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation."


Did I miscount? I was thinking that was the third from the bottom. :cry:

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lordoftheworld wrote:
this happens all the time to companies who hire a dumbass translator, to introduce a product into a new country.

The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the phrase means "bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax" depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, "ko-kou-ko-le," which can be loosely translated as "happiness in the mouth."

this is hilarious though "A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation."


You should check out http://www.engrish.com sometime...

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