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Old 01-20-2008, 03:47 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Such problematic compositions of words are created only by people who don't have a particularly deep knowledge of a language.
For example, an American car company tried to market a car called a Nova in South America. Alas, "no va" in Spanish means "It doesn't go." And the Swedish company that marketed a vacuum cleaner in Amercia with the slogan, "Nothing sucks like a Voxx."
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