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1. lettershometoyou
   Member
   Sep 24, 2009, 9:14 PM

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

   Coca-Cola brings your ancestors back from the dead.

   The blog I need help with is lettershometoyou.wordpress.com.

2. aw1923
   Member
   Sep 24, 2009, 10:50 PM

   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.

3. lettershometoyou
   Member
   Sep 26, 2009, 1:17 PM

   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

4. giantword
   Member
   Oct 21, 2009, 4:11 PM

   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?

5. lettershometoyou
   Member
   Oct 22, 2009, 8:33 PM

   What in tarnation does tarnation mean? Does it translate?

6. vanillalounge
   Member
   Nov 18, 2009, 4:27 PM

   @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.

7. timethief
   Member
   Nov 18, 2009, 7:47 PM

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

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