Talk:Cocacolonization/Archives/2012

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--CopyToWiktionaryBot 03:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Moon joke citation
I don't have the citation, but I can confirm from own experience that the joke exists in the wild. --Shaddack (talk) 21:30, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Bullshit urban legend removed
Interestingly, when the Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela" it meant "Bite the Wax Tadpole" or "Female Horse Stuffed with Wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth." This is wrong on so many levels it's hilarious. Two major points: * The whole "Bite the Wax Tadpole" story is an urban legend with such a small kernel of truth to it as to be laughable.[ * The current transliteration of the name 可口可乐 is "kekoukele", not "kokoukole". You're aiming for Wade-Giles translitation and even getting that much wrong. (The apostrophes in both Pinyin and Wade-Giles are actually necessary -- for disambiguation in the former and as part of the sound in the latter.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.173.96.99 (talk) 04:50, 15 March 2010 (UTC)