Yeah, Sega means something very different in Italian, meaning Arsenal played European games wearing shirts that to Italian fans proudly declared WANK on them. I bet lieve the same problem faced equestrian Pippa Funnell during the Olympics in Athens, her first name meaning the same thing in Greek..
A Chinese company asked me if they could use ecgunge with different dot thingummys. All I pointed out to them is what their customers might see if they get the wrong one (not that it matters these days...)
iain-ecgunge said: A Chinese company asked me if they could use ecgunge with different dot thingummys. All I pointed out to them is what their customers might see if they get the wrong one (not that it matters these days...)
I'm just imagining a room of super serious international business people considering a multimillion dollar investment in the chinese company and someone goes to the website during the presentation and pulls up the guy in the giraffe suit going in the dunk tank, and like all the businesspeople are super shocked and the chinese company representative is all waving thier hands and shocked.
General motors noticed that the Chevrolet Nova wasn't selling well in South and Central America. They then realised that No va is Spanish for does not go..
Similarly, a few years ago Nike brought out some trainers which were two colours, black and light brown, so they called them Black and Tan. They didn't sell at all in Ireland