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Why use the professionals for my translation? The following stories may or may not be true, but they do emphasise how much time and consideration has to be taken when dealing with languages! When a major pen manufacturer marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, 'It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you.' They thought that the word 'embarazar' (to impregnate) meant 'to embarrass', so the ad read: 'It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant.' A large American brewers used the slogan 'Turn it loose' in Spanish which was read as 'Suffer from diarrhoea.' One famous company introduced the 'Mist Stick' curling iron into Germany. Obviously not too many people had a use for a 'manure stick'. An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of, 'I saw the Pope' (el Papa), the shirts read, 'I saw the potato' (la papa). These excerpts were forwarded to us, so the source is unknown. The names of the companies involved have been removed.
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