Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:43:54 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <v04220809b62f6a7daf64@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200011081749.KAA20426@usr08.primenet.com> References: <200011081749.KAA20426@usr08.primenet.com>
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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, <blk@skynet.be> || 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
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