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Re: CHAT: False friends - echos from the mother tounge

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 9, 2003, 17:10
>ObMemeStomper: This story is absolutely bogus. See >http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.htm (except it seems to be >broken at the moment). Anyhow, the Chevrolet Nova has always sold >very well in Mexico: Mexicans aren't idiots.
Seems unbroken now. Interesting that this site admits that this falsehood apprears in hundreds of book on marketing. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>