• asudox@lemmy.world
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    CocaCola spent billions of dollars on their logo to make it a puzzle and just to have someone solve this mystery-like logo? These posts are always bs. Feels like a post from Facebook.

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    Lol, I speak Arabic as a native language, and I know damn well that you translated incorrectly.

    It’s not “لا”, it’s “لِ”, which means “for”, “to”, or “of”, as in “for/to/of Mohammed”.

    So yeah, it’s not as bad as you think.

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    Yeah, I’m really sure that’s what they were thinking when they designed their logo.

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    Seems like a whole lot of work to trick Muslims into not drinking something they were drinking anyway…

    Pepsi’s ok, though. Right?

    Edit: Forgot the word not

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    oh thats an old one , even when it spread around 5th graders over 15 years ago we thought it was farfetched bullshit

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    Long shot but I could see this being a sneaky ad targeting the same type of person who buys clothing with “infidel” written in Arabic and goes around explaining that to anyone who will listen. Bonus points if they totally would’ve joined the military during the GWOT era but didn’t want to end up punching a drill instructor/sergeant/whatever the taxi service and chair force have.

    Billy Badass and friends give a bump in sales so they can find opportunities to spread the “knowledge”, people think about the product more than they otherwise would due to controversy and if the response is overwhelmingly negative, the company doesn’t even have to play the damage control game since their fingerprints aren’t anywhere on it.

    Not saying I think this is the case but it’d make for an interesting leaked memo.