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Harry Simenon
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:21 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post

It's a link, but don't worry, it's harmless!


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Frank Mazur
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 03:22 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post

Made me think fondly of our Prez!
3-dollar gas. Writers' strike. Read a great book by F. E. Mazur.

SPINE
THE BUCKSELLER
"A BIGGER CASE"
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Fred Dungan
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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 10:05 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post

I do pretty much the same thing to Spanish, which wouldn't be so bad except that I worked for a year as an interpreter for the Riverside County (California) Department of Social Services. I was supposed to determine eligibility for food stamps, but I had so much trouble interviewing applicants that I simply gave everybody food stamps whether they qualified or not. And it took them a year to fire me. At least everybody got fed.

http://www.fdungan.com/quixote.htm
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Todd Hunter
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Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 04:55 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post

We have a Spanish minister at church who translates Spanish versions of hymns back into English...it's rather interesting.
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Joyce Scarbrough
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Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 06:57 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks, Harry. My Foreign Language Major daughter will appreciate those!

~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
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Read the first chapters: http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Waste time on Joyce's Blog: http://joycescarbrough.blogspot.com
Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kztz5e3XZeo
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Harry Simenon
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Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 11:09 am:   Edit PostPrint Post

Here some more (where the rest came from)

Enjoy! (I did too, and I made quite a few of those mistakes as well.)
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Harry Simenon
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Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 01:37 am:   Edit PostPrint Post

A sign in China with a rather mysterious message:

"People present draft.

Carefully street trip ticket the yellow handbill defends to fall into trap to cheat!"


It is probably Chinese translated word by word into English. What can it mean?


Source: (I was too lazy to make a nice link)
http://www.travellerspoint.com/photos/stream/size/L/photoID/248809/orderByID/

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