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Bill D	Lost in translation ! (34)	RE: Lost in translation !	16 Mar 15
Many, many years ago in the early days of TV in the USA, Jack Paar hosted an early version of the Tonight Show. Sometimes he did his "Berlitz bit" after the language school. He would have several linguists, each proficient in at least 2 languages. Paar would whisper a joke to #1 in English, who would then tell it to #2 in, say, French, who would tell it to 3# in German, who would tell it to #4 in Italian.. who would then tell it back to Paar.. and us... in English. The point was usually totally lost.... I thought of this when Ronald Reagan met Gorbachev in Iceland, and there seem to have been misunderstandings from 'ambiguous' translations.

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