I haven't time right now for anything more than the titles, but that as
enough to wake me up this morning with a large laugh....
Ta Peter
Doug
On 10-Aug-07, at 7:04 AM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
> Ah, this is more like it:
>
> "China has a world-leading knack for churning out copies and
> counterfeits,
> and the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" last month
> prompted a surge of peculiarly Chinese imitations as well as a quickie
> unauthorized translation. Below are excerpts from the publishers'
> summaries
> and the texts of the various "Harry Potter" counterfeits that have been
> circulating in China in the last few years, translated by The [New
> York]
> Times from the Chinese."
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/opinion/10potter.html?
> _r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&o
> ref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1186750855-yNA5Iiime1QSNemJd0ODDA>
>
> It's like Babelfish writ large.
>
> P
>
>
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