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  lettershometoyou · Member · Sep 24, 2009 at 9:14 pm

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  Coke adds life ad slogan translated into Mandarin came out as:

  Coca-Cola brings your ancestors back from the dead.

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  aw1923 · Member · Sep 24, 2009 at 10:50 pm

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  oh, so this is the purpose of this forum. lol, I’ve been tempted not to comment and wait til someone else does.

  I love Coca-cola it definitely ads life, in by which I mean produces more fat cells.

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Sep 26, 2009 at 1:17 pm

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  Coke adds pounds, more like it.

  Another famous coke advertisement gaffe was the translation of Coca-cola into Chinese characters…somehow it came out as: Bite the wax tadpole. At least that’s what I’ve heard, and am too lazy to check out snopes.com

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  giantword · Member · Oct 21, 2009 at 4:11 pm

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  brings your ancestors back from the dead.
  hee haw !!

  I was under the impression that WordPress had software the automatically translated your entire blog. That’s why I chose WordPress’ INOVE theme because it was touted as “translation ready.”

  So, what in tarnation does “translation ready” mean?

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Oct 22, 2009 at 8:33 pm

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  What in tarnation does tarnation mean? Does it translate?

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  zefontainhas · Member · Nov 18, 2009 at 4:27 pm

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  @giantword, “translation ready” means that that theme’s strings are loaded on http://translate.wordpress.com and that you can translate them into other languages. And WordPress has no automatic translation capabilities, btw.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 18, 2009 at 7:47 pm

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  I used the search utility and found a work around for the Google translation widget that you may be interested in https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/translation-widget?replies=20#post-304621