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... cross-cultural communications failure was in the 80's. Coke had an ad campaign for "Coke adds life."

The translation into Japanese was incorrectly done, and the translation was closer to "Coke will bring your dead ancestors back from the grave."

And "no va" really does mean "it doesn't go".
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True  Michael Kelly | 07/22/05
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Montavista Linux  asova | 07/23/05
wasted effort  eggo4 | 07/23/05
VISTA:  s_gamgee | 07/23/05
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Longhorn's new name: Windows Vista  Matei | 07/23/05
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Software Asurance(sp)  Chipper1963 | 07/23/05
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Longhorn  majinh | 07/23/05
OT - New Microsft Patent Application  none none | 07/23/05
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Re: Vista is ridiculous in italian  none none | 07/24/05
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I Agree ....  rick@... | 07/24/05
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Ouch  TWRX | 07/24/05
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OS  nvjetv | 07/25/05
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Microsoft ,  nvjetv | 07/25/05
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lazcano  jelazcano | 07/25/05
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