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It's not really related to what you asked, but when you mentioned "embarazada" I remembered a story I had heard.
According to: http://www.baetzler.de/humor/ads_gone_wrong.html,
When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, " it won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you". Instead, the company thought that the word " embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant".
(Plenty more stories in the same vein on that site, too.) Just thought I'd share.
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