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Re: OT: Not a popular product in English-speaking countries.

From:Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
Date:Thursday, April 22, 2004, 16:13
From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>

> May well be the same phenomenon as Engrish in Japan, where Japanese > product designers, with varying degrees of fluency in English, choose to > use English words to appear more "modern" or "stylish", sometimes with > rather amusing consequences. May well be the same with the Barf > detergent. I suspect most foreign English dictionaries don't contain > slangish words like "barf" :-)
http://www.engrish.com/ I'm studying some examples right now. And anybody ever heard of a Korean peach drink called Coolpis?