"dacting", from _Veep_

[Laurence Horn]

P.S.


On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:

>
> On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:32 AM, George Thompson wrote:
>
>> Some years ago, a columnist in the TLS proposed that a person whose
>> occupation was to translate back into Malayalam documents that had been
>> written originally in Malayalam but had been translated into another
>> language, would be a remalayalamer.
>>
>> Just for you all to ponder.
>>
>> GAT
>
> And whoever translated the documents out of Malayalam in the first place would of course be an unmalayalamer.  I think I know his name, and his job application letter:
>
> Re: Malayalam.  Nu, Madam, I'm Adam, unmalayalamer.
>
> LH

We can further assume from his letter that he was proposing to translate the Malayalam documents into Yiddish, which after all is written backwards.

LH

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