translation question

[Keenan, Edward]

Query for Kjetil Rå Hauge:

The passage of time makes me increasingly less confident about what I may once have said or done -- but was it really I who mentioned that example?  No recollection.

Perhaps the other Edward Louis Keenan, Department of Linguistics, UCLA?  He, however, is known as Ted.

Edward L. Keenan
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History
Harvard University


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>One of my favorite funny translations:  "wet
>sheep" for "hydraulic ram" ("gidravlicheskii 
>taran") -- mentioned years ago by Ned Keenan.

On the menu of the otherwise excellent La 
Bruschetta on boul. Shipchenski prohod in Sofia, 
not far from BAN, "zapecheni kartofi" is 
translated as "constipated potatoes"...
-- 
--- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo (on sabbatical in Sofia, Bulgaria)
--- tel +359/29434244, mobile +359/899725606, fax +1/5084372444

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