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		friendstock on Sept 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Your Business Needs a Chinese Name This seems like an anecdote that non-Chinese tell, but I've never heard about it in Chinese, nor have I seen the Chinese characters. Can anyone verify this?

pmiller2 on Sept 14, 2011 [–]

Snopes.com calls it "partially true": http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp

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