dinosaur relevance theory

[cimorene]

A very special Dinosaur Comic strip, via languagelog, that could be really useful to the way members of my mother's family and my spouse's family tell stories and jokes, if they absorbed it! He's dead now. These maxims are pretty useful though! Check out the whole post from languagelog: In real life he is a charmer, of course.

In other news, I've been proofing all morning for a friendly Australian resident in Stockholm who, like me, has taken up translating Swedish into English as a side supply of cash. She seems pretty cool, but she's making the kind of mistakes I made in my school assignments a couple of years ago. ("It's not about hugs... it's about oral sex.") And lediga doesn't mean relaxing, it means available or free. Would've been pretty funny if the translation had gone out like that... to Thailand where they're probably planning to translate it from English again using Babelfish or something. Actually, that sounds awesome. *____*

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[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

It's the telephone game + the potential for diplomatic incidents! Lives could be wrecked. Good though.