Sunday, September 27, 2009

Lost in Translation

I have often told my students the humorous problems with translation that a former professor of mine for Medieval Philosopher shared with his students. If you take Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and translate it to French and back again you get The Raisins of Discontent. Now a wit has taken this one step further with the song "Take Me Out to the Ball game"! Try pasting the link below and visit this site.

http://linear1.org/gm/archives/00000007.php