From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 8 14:19:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27BEF37B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 14:19:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (dialup368.brussels.skynet.be [195.238.20.112]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5809DC1C; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 23:19:35 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200011081749.KAA20426@usr08.primenet.com> References: <200011081749.KAA20426@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:43:54 +0100 To: Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 5:49 PM +0000 2000/11/8, Terry Lambert wrote: > I still think that including the remainder of the sentence > makes for a more universally comprehensible joke. I keep > thinking of the joke being translated into another language, > without the cultural baggage needed for completion of the > sentence, and wonder how well that baggage would be implied. I have been told that there is an old Russian saying that goes "To translate is to betray". I certainly believe that translation does more or less damage to virtually anything ever written by a human being, and in my experience jokes almost certainly suffer worse than anything else. I would not worry about the issue of translation when considering a joke for inclusion in the fortune database. If you were to do that, you'd have to throw out the entire thing anyway, because I don't think a single entry is likely to survive. Remember, the flesh is rotten but the vodka is strong. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message