RE: foreign mirrors

[Philip Bakelaar <pbakelaar@exit109.com>]

At 09:34 AM 7/15/96 -0400, David Levine wrote:
>>Ben, do NOT translate my sections of LIT.  I have enough trouble with
>>people misenterpreting what I say.  I don't want the hassel of people
>>misinterpreting what others have enterpreted me to say.  This would be
>>especially frustrating since comments would come to me in languages I
>>couldn't understabd or respond to.
>
>I have to agree.  Unless translations are done by a native speaker (and
>sometimes
>even then), I'm wary of them.  I'm sure you've all received one of those
>junk-emails
>at one time or another with a list of all the product and slogan
>mistranslations into
>other languages....
>
>And, of course, upon reading even a correctly translated document
>(especially
>a correct one), readers would assume they could email the author in that
>language,
>as Kelly says...


Yup. Thats kewl. I started out doing it for practice anyway. :-)