Words+Writing
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When something goes awry in Google Translate.
When you go to a website in the Faroe Islands, it’s not in English, and something goes awry in Google Translate. Here’s a sample: Since it was web-domain and tech-related, I’m fairly sure this is NOT the correct translation, though I enjoyed imagining how “fee slag” and “move the ecstasy” could be played with in…
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Impossibility and Risk
In discussing a difficult, pending project, with many real and imagined obstacles, via email (an imperfect tool) with a partner and colleague. Business and product names have been [obscured] in the text below, to protect the [innocent] and/or [neurotic]. 🙂 <I wrote> As the French writer Andre Maurois said, “the world progresses thanks to impossible things,…
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