amusing article

[Lynne Murphy]

The following article:

Annals of an L.A. gig, or "job"
        (I annotate movies. I do this so that "Sugar and
Spice" isn't translated into Swahili as
"Condiments, the Movie.")

http://salon.com/people/feature/2001/10/08/annotation/index.html

Might be interesting to anyone wanting to exemplify the idiomaticity of
English and the necessity of shared knowledge in communication.

At the end of the article, there are also links to articles on what you
miss in movie subtitles and on AltaVista's translator.

Lynne





M Lynne Murphy
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School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
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