Re: HUMOUR: interesting tidbits from the marketing world

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Jesse Bangs wrote:

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>Hear, hear!  Many stories of cultural confusion like this are skewed at
>best, and just plain wrong at worst.  For example, the "Nova" story
>sounds good on paper, but most Spanish speakers I've talked to didn't
>immediately recognize the connection between "nova" and "no va," and if
>they did it wouldn't be a big deterrent to buying a car.  The connection
>would seem more like a joke than a serious concern.
Yeah. They might get a laugh out of it: "Har har, compre un carro
que no va! Har har!"

Padraic.

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>Jesse S. Bangs  jaspax@u.washington.edu
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