>Talking about translations, here are two real-world masterpieces:
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>2) An astronomy program I saw on television, several ago (also in Spanish), was talking about a star with a name that I found quite strange. I had never heard of such a star. Finally I realized that they had translated "Sirius B" phonetically - resulting in the equivalent of "serious bee". In Spanish, of course, the two don't sound similar at all. (Sirius is a double star; the brighter component being Sirius A, the dimmer one - a white dwarf - Sirius B.)
In Thailand many bars feature a video screen, always advertised as V.D.O
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
