- Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following
in an American Ad campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux!"
- Japanese companies translated hteir slogans for the American
market as follows:
- Pocket Wetty hand toweals
- Trim Pecker Trowsers
- Green Piles lawn fertilizer
- Shot Vision televisions
- soft drinks called Calpis, Plussy and Pocari Sweat
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- Gerber initially used the same packaging and labeling in Africa that
they used in the U.S. - with the cute baby on the label. Later they found
out that African companies routinely put pictures on the label of what
is inside, since many people couln't read.
- Chevrolet Nova (a star that suddenly increases its light
output tremendously) sounds exciting but when it was marketed in
Mexico as Nova it got a different slant
- No Va - as in No go
or
- autodestructivo, -va adjective)self-destruction or
- Inflected Form(s):
plural implosiones or implosion
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