[lbo-talk] Encyclopedia

Jerry Monaco monacojerry at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 13:23:18 PST 2007


On 1/10/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/10/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yoshie, would you please not post extensive excerpts
> > in languages other than English? A short phrase,
> > translated, is something else. Long quotes are
> > gratuitious displays of condescending erudution.
> > Everyone knows you are smart and read lots of stuff in
> > lots of languages. If you feel the need ti post a link
> > in Spanish or Farsi or whatever, please do, but just
> > the URL, OK? Doug, could you enforce this please?
>
> In this case, my English translation was provided right below the
> Spanish original.
> --
>
Which should have been easy to recognize just by looking at cognates and phrases such as _la fórmula es mía, no de Voltaire_ translated as "the formula is mine, not Voltaire's"....

Encyclopedias are sexy. And Jim's idea of a yoshiepedia is also kind of sexy.

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