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Odp: traduttore tradittore

Hope wrote:
> My husband reminds me that the Chevrolet Nova never sold well in
> Spanish-speaking countries, for a fairly obvious reason: in Spanish, "no
> va" means doesn't run!


Same thing with the light bulbs OSRAM in Poland.
In Polish "osram" means "I will shit on this" :))).
Nueroleptic drug known in the all world as Risperdal is marketed in Poland
as Rispolept because Risperdal sounds like polish "fuck it up" :))



Jerzy

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