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newbery at vuwcomp.UUCP
newbery at vuwcomp.UUCP
Fri Feb 20 08:30:55 AEST 1987
In article <24944 at rochester.ARPA> ken at rochester.UUCP (SKY) writes:
||innocent of reasons. Remember what Coca Cola means in Chinese, and why
||they changed it? :-) (I don't remember but it was pretty ikky...)
|
|Actually it wasn't "Coca Cola" but the slogan "Coke adds life" which
|some inept translator rendered as "Coke brings your ancestors back from
|the dead".
I believe the phonetic transliteration of Coca Cola translates as
"Bite the wax tadpole" ! See "The Wizard Masters of Peng-Shi Angle" by
Frederik Pohl.
--
Michael Newbery
ACSnet: newbery at vuwcomp.nz UUCP: {ubc-vision,alberta}!calgary!vuwcomp!newbery
Une boule qui roule tue les poules. (Landslides kill chickens)
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