Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)
Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)
And
Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting
The items posted here are generally the ones which I have read somewhere and would like to share. The ones posted under the label "PERSONAL" have been written by me :).
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
A Perfect Ad
One day I met a friend of mine.
He was a salesman for a Cola company, posted in the Middle East.
Seeing him back home, I got surprised and asked, " Weren't you supposed to be in Arabia ?"
He gave his account thus :- " I got posted in the Middle East. I was very confident that I will make a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn't know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through pictures. I made 3 posters
First, A man crawling through the hot desert sand, totally exhausted and panting.
Second, The man is drinking our Cola
Third, Our man is now totally refreshed."
" Thats a very good ad", said I," what can be a problem with it ?"
He replied," Well, I didn't know Arabic, neither did I realize that Arabs read from right to left".
He was a salesman for a Cola company, posted in the Middle East.
Seeing him back home, I got surprised and asked, " Weren't you supposed to be in Arabia ?"
He gave his account thus :- " I got posted in the Middle East. I was very confident that I will make a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn't know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through pictures. I made 3 posters
First, A man crawling through the hot desert sand, totally exhausted and panting.
Second, The man is drinking our Cola
Third, Our man is now totally refreshed."
" Thats a very good ad", said I," what can be a problem with it ?"
He replied," Well, I didn't know Arabic, neither did I realize that Arabs read from right to left".
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