Monday, March 16, 2009

The only title I can think of is Lost in Translation, but it's just so trite

I received an e-mail the other day in Hebrew that was a little beyond me, so I ran it through one of those crappy online translating programs to get the gist of it. It turns out it was about a child with cancer who needed blood donated. After reading a couple paragraphs of broken English, I got to the syntactically perfect, but slightly inappropriate last line, "Let the kid live a little!" I went back to the original text just to double check that line, and it turned out the Hebrew was pretty simple. It read, "Give life to a small child!"

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