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Woooosh
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Does "Toma Leche" = "Got Milk?"
"Toma Leche"?
The CA Milk council did both ad campaigns. But does Toma Leche makes sense to anyone? My family thinks it's confusing and doesn't "get it"...
Got Milk is www.GotMilk.com
Toma Leche is www.TomaLeche.com
[Edited on 6-22-2011 by Woooosh]
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DENNIS
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Some things just defy literal interpretation. Anyway...it seems that "Got Milk" is incorrect. Maybe that's why it doesn't work.
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JESSE
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Yeah, its pretty lame.
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Pablito1
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In Peru toma leche would mean to "drink milk". It translates litterly as "take milk".
I suppose that the Mexicans mean the same thing don't you think.
Regards, Pablito
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I forgot to mention that I speak more the Peruvian brand of Spanish than the Mexican brand. There is a difference.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pablito1
I suppose that the Mexicans mean the same thing don't you think.
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The whole "Got ________?" thing is a product of the Me Generation and subsequent generations where possessions are valued above all else. Madison
Avenue picked up on it and voila. Hence, the popularity of "Got _______", which is to say, "are you sure you have in your possession, OUR PRODUCT?"
At least that's what this arm chair sociologist has always concluded.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
"Toma Leche"?
The CA Milk council did both ad campaigns. But does Toma Leche makes sense to anyone? My family thinks it's confusing and doesn't "get it"...
Got Milk is www.GotMilk.com
Toma Leche is www.TomaLeche.com |
I think that "tienes leche" would be the most logical translation...but then again it could be misinterpreted...dirty minds and such.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mrbotete
| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
"Toma Leche"?
The CA Milk council did both ad campaigns. But does Toma Leche makes sense to anyone? My family thinks it's confusing and doesn't "get it"...
Got Milk is www.GotMilk.com
Toma Leche is www.TomaLeche.com |
I think that "tienes leche" would be the most logical translation...but then again it could be misinterpreted...dirty minds and such. |
I was wondering when someone was going to state the obvious. 
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and this armchair psychologist thinks that precisely because the Mexicanos are not part of the ME generation ideology, they would prefer the "Toma
leche" meaning do you drink milk ? .. which, if you do drink it, you subsequently have think about whether you have already bought it ...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
The whole "Got ________?" thing is a product of the Me Generation and subsequent generations where possessions are valued above all else. Madison
Avenue picked up on it and voila. Hence, the popularity of "Got _______", which is to say, "are you sure you have in your possession, OUR PRODUCT?"
At least that's what this arm chair sociologist has always concluded. |
I agree, It is a very tired saying at this point
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mrbotete
I think that "tienes leche" would be the most logical translation...but then again it could be misinterpreted...dirty minds and such. |
One of my first Spanish lessons with a friend made it clear that, when ordering desayunos, you don't ask the waiter if "Tienes huevos" !!!
Don't believe everything you think....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
| Quote: | Originally posted by mrbotete
I think that "tienes leche" would be the most logical translation...but then again it could be misinterpreted...dirty minds and such. |
One of my first Spanish lessons with a friend made it clear that, when ordering desayunos, you don't ask the waiter if "Tienes huevos" !!! |
That says a bunch!
As Dennis mentioned early on in this thread, languge translation can be a mine field. On a certain level, there really cannot be a literal translation
between languages, in that there are cultural and historic markers that are specific to a single language. And when vernacular and current popular
culture collide, it can be crazy.
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Woooosh
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It seems "Peruvian Spanish" is more accepting of the ad slogan "Toma Leche" than Mexican Spanish, which could be "Tienes Leche". When I mentioned
that alternative everyone rolled their eyes and bounced their boobies at me with both hands.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
It seems "Peruvian Spanish" is more accepting of the ad slogan "Toma Leche" than Mexican Spanish, which could be "Tienes Leche". When I mentioned
that alternative everyone rolled their eyes and bounced their boobies at me with both hands. |
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This all reminds me of the time I tried a literal translation of "doggy bag" in a Loreto restaurant. I asked the waiter for a "saco de perro". He of
course cracked up and told me that I had just ordered, in perfect Spanish, a dog scrotum. He said they got very few orders for those. Then he
explained that it would be better to ask for a "bolsa de perro"  , unless of
course I actually wanted a dog scrotum. Sorry for the hijack.
[Edited on 6-23-2011 by Ken Bondy]
carpe diem!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
The whole "Got ________?" thing is a product of the Me Generation and subsequent generations where possessions are valued above all else. Madison
Avenue picked up on it and voila. Hence, the popularity of "Got _______", which is to say, "are you sure you have in your possession, OUR PRODUCT?"
At least that's what this arm chair sociologist has always concluded. |
 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
One of my first Spanish lessons with a friend made it clear that, when ordering desayunos, you don't ask the waiter if "Tienes huevos" !!! |
My 80 something Mexican grandmother made it a point to ask the waiter for "Juevos de Ranchero" last year when we were in Tucson. The waiter didn't
catch it, but I am still mortified.
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On the juevos subject I have heard some Mexicans say "juevos blancas" when reffering to eggs.
I have never heard Peruvians say anything like that.
Regards, Pablito
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"Hay Blanqueós" ( is there little white ones) is my preferred form of requesting eggs. Same with milk, "Hay Leche", is just polite.
I remember once in the mid 70's, I was in San Miguel de Allende and very proud of my Spanglish, coming from the North and using Panocha to ask for raw
brown sugar was normal in Sonora. So I went into one of those little Changadas that functions as a general/grocery store where you ask the person
behind the counter for what you want. It was market day and the place was noisy and packed with country folk. Finally, it was my turn and I shouted
out Tienes Panocha", the place fell into a dead silence and all eyes were on me. The clerk asked me one more time exactly what I wanted and I
explained, you know Panocha, raw sugar in cone form, oh he said you want Peloncio. Well, I got my brown sugar and left. Later I asked a local friend
what the heck did Panocha mean, oh que, I never used the term when asking for brown sugar again.
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