Am always in the market for a quick painless way to learn another language.

So I thought of childrens books. But then suddenly realised that childrens books don’t translate. In particular the Dr Seuss books don’t translate. Fox in socks wouldn’t rhyme any more. Green eggs and ham you couldn’t rhyme boat with coat. So how are these books translated into foreign languages? Or do children in other countries have to go without?

And what books (other than the Bible of course) have lost most of their value by being translated into English?

Yes, you’re right.

Have some fun translating “a ripe blackberry murmurs to the wall” into French.

Divine Angel said:

Yes, you’re right.

Have some fun translating “a ripe blackberry murmurs to the wall” into French.

Christ. It’s been too long since I had a Calzone.

Rule 303 said:

Divine Angel said:

Yes, you’re right.

Have some fun translating “a ripe blackberry murmurs to the wall” into French.

Christ. It’s been too long since I had a Calzone.

They are pretty filling.

buffy said:

Rule 303 said:

Divine Angel said:

Yes, you’re right.

Have some fun translating “a ripe blackberry murmurs to the wall” into French.

Christ. It’s been too long since I had a Calzone.

They are pretty filling.

Well his name IS Fat Tony Calzone.

mollwollfumble said:

Am always in the market for a quick painless way to learn another language.

So I thought of childrens books. But then suddenly realised that childrens books don’t translate. In particular the Dr Seuss books don’t translate. Fox in socks wouldn’t rhyme any more. Green eggs and ham you couldn’t rhyme boat with coat. So how are these books translated into foreign languages? Or do children in other countries have to go without?

And what books (other than the Bible of course) have lost most of their value by being translated into English?

Hold on. The translated version of the Cat in the Hat does rhyme in Italian. (But not in French)

Grinch, Lorax, Horton, Green eggs and ham have all been translated.

But Fox in Socks isn’t translated into non-English languages. Possibly not Yertle the Turtle. Or Hop on Pop.

WTF. OK, this has to be fake.

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Am always in the market for a quick painless way to learn another language.

So I thought of childrens books. But then suddenly realised that childrens books don’t translate. In particular the Dr Seuss books don’t translate. Fox in socks wouldn’t rhyme any more. Green eggs and ham you couldn’t rhyme boat with coat. So how are these books translated into foreign languages? Or do children in other countries have to go without?

And what books (other than the Bible of course) have lost most of their value by being translated into English?

Hold on. The translated version of the Cat in the Hat does rhyme in Italian. (But not in French)

Grinch, Lorax, Horton, Green eggs and ham have all been translated.

But Fox in Socks isn’t translated into non-English languages. Possibly not Yertle the Turtle. Or Hop on Pop.

WTF. OK, this has to be fake.

That last one is possibly ‘Horton Hears a Who’.

Witty Rejoinder said:

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Am always in the market for a quick painless way to learn another language.

So I thought of childrens books. But then suddenly realised that childrens books don’t translate. In particular the Dr Seuss books don’t translate. Fox in socks wouldn’t rhyme any more. Green eggs and ham you couldn’t rhyme boat with coat. So how are these books translated into foreign languages? Or do children in other countries have to go without?

And what books (other than the Bible of course) have lost most of their value by being translated into English?

Hold on. The translated version of the Cat in the Hat does rhyme in Italian. (But not in French)

Grinch, Lorax, Horton, Green eggs and ham have all been translated.

But Fox in Socks isn’t translated into non-English languages. Possibly not Yertle the Turtle. Or Hop on Pop.

WTF. OK, this has to be fake.

That last one is possibly ‘Horton Hears a Who’.

Belay that.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

mollwollfumble said:

Hold on. The translated version of the Cat in the Hat does rhyme in Italian. (But not in French)

Grinch, Lorax, Horton, Green eggs and ham have all been translated.

But Fox in Socks isn’t translated into non-English languages. Possibly not Yertle the Turtle. Or Hop on Pop.

WTF. OK, this has to be fake.

That last one is possibly ‘Horton Hears a Who’.

Belay that.

Exactly.

Rhyming in Italian should be easy..all words end in a vowel it seems.

gaghalfrunt said:

Rhyming in Italian should be easy..all words end in a vowel it seems.

papageno y papagena

ah another encoding-dependent round of assertions that are deniable by vague references to rock-solid definitions that never eventuate