polyglottal telephone
Sep. 28th, 2009 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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_hannelore and me: I was in this translation relay dealie, wherein each person translates a text into their assigned language and then passes it to the next person who translates it into theirs, and so on, the purpose being to see how funny the text is at the end. In the case of the team I wasn't on, the answer is: pretty funny!
eodrakken is me, I was translating French to English for the team that got it mostly the same. I did almost all of it without a dictionary, then couldn't find the one idiom I didn't understand in any dictionary even when I looked, so... go me.
_hannelore and me: I was in this translation relay dealie, wherein each person translates a text into their assigned language and then passes it to the next person who translates it into theirs, and so on, the purpose being to see how funny the text is at the end. In the case of the team I wasn't on, the answer is: pretty funny!eodrakken is me, I was translating French to English for the team that got it mostly the same. I did almost all of it without a dictionary, then couldn't find the one idiom I didn't understand in any dictionary even when I looked, so... go me.
