{"id":2449,"date":"2021-10-08T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2021-10-08T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:00:27","slug":"a-bottled-grim-reaper-a-cholesterol-overload-and-an-unwanted-option-october-friday-funnies-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/a-bottled-grim-reaper-a-cholesterol-overload-and-an-unwanted-option-october-friday-funnies-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bottled Grim Reaper, a Cholesterol Overload and an Unwanted Option &#8211; October Friday Funnies is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4076\" src=\"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/auerbach-intl-blog.jpg\" alt=\"auerbach intl blog\" width=\"1023\" height=\"500\" \/>A very happy Friday,\u00a0Alex,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crisp breezes and the changing colors of foliage signal the return of October, and October brings us the spooky fun of Halloween.\u00a0\u00a0On the other hand, haunted translation mistakes aren&#8217;t fun and last a lot longer than one ghoulish evening. \u00a0Let&#8217;s take a brief tour of a graveyard of translation blunders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2337 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/coca-cola.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola came up with what they thought was a brilliant marketing idea &#8211; mix the indigenous language of New Zealand, te reo\/M\u00e4ori, with English and post it on vending machines. \u00a0The problem was that the posted &#8220;Kia ora, Mate&#8221; translated to &#8220;To Live Dead&#8221; in the native language&#8230; a pause that didn&#8217;t exactly refresh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2341 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/eggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Free and easy is often neither as a group of Team Norway&#8217;s chefs found out during the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. \u00a0They were ordering supplies from a local online food service vendor and translated their order from Norwegian to Korean using Google Translate. Unfortunately, the free app mistranslated their order for 1,500 eggs to 15,000 eggs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2340 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/car.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Never a translation champion, Ford Motors continued on its crusade of miscommunication when their ad slogan in Belgium was literally a death knell for their sales effort. \u00a0By incorrectly translating their American campaign of &#8220;Every car has a high-quality body.&#8221; into &#8220;Every car has a high quality corpse.&#8221;, Ford suffered an expensive blow to its brand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No business, large or small, should underestimate the value of retaining a highly trained, professional language service firm. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lt.apptivo.com\/apptivo-message\/elr\/MjI1NTQwXzE0NjUyMzE3XzE2MzUyODQ3MzA5MTA_1ltr=aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWVyYmFjaC1pbnRsLmNvbQ==\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lt.apptivo.com\/apptivo-message\/elr\/MjI1NTQwXzE0NjUyMzE3XzE2MzUyODQ3MzA5MTA_1ltr%3DaHR0cHM6Ly9hdWVyYmFjaC1pbnRsLmNvbQ%3D%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635856435515000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEzx5DCWSsjXm2OY7mHb98Fc7wVqQ\">Auerbach International<\/a>\u00a0takes a professional and personalized approach to our clients. \u00a0We&#8217;ve witnessed the ghostly hauntings of translation errors that occur when businesses cut corners. Let us exorcise those language mistake demons so that your products or services don&#8217;t suggest a mortal outcome to your customers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A scary successful October to you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hempel<\/p>\n<p>Director of Client Success<\/p>\n<p>Auerbach International<\/p>\n<p>Direct: \u00a0415-592-0042 X125<\/p>\n<p>Mobile: \u00a0818-445-4451<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:chris@auerbac\">chris@auerbach-intl.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lt.apptivo.com\/apptivo-message\/elr\/MjI1NTQwXzE0NjUyMzE3XzE2MzUyODQ3MzA5MTA_2ltr=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hdWVyYmFjaC1pbnRsLmNvbQ==\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lt.apptivo.com\/apptivo-message\/elr\/MjI1NTQwXzE0NjUyMzE3XzE2MzUyODQ3MzA5MTA_2ltr%3DaHR0cDovL3d3dy5hdWVyYmFjaC1pbnRsLmNvbQ%3D%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635856435515000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEXXXwDEy8HmOYLpm-J0dafHZHJw\">www.auerbach-intl.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;120+ Languages. Simple Solutions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very happy Friday,\u00a0Alex, &nbsp; Crisp breezes and the changing colors of foliage signal the return of October, and October brings us the spooky fun of Halloween.\u00a0\u00a0On the other hand, haunted translation mistakes aren&#8217;t fun and last a lot longer than one ghoulish evening. \u00a0Let&#8217;s take a brief tour of a graveyard of translation blunders&#8230;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/a-bottled-grim-reaper-a-cholesterol-overload-and-an-unwanted-option-october-friday-funnies-is-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Bottled Grim Reaper, a Cholesterol Overload and an Unwanted Option &#8211; October Friday Funnies is Here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-newsletter","post_format-post-format-video","entry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auerbach-intl.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}