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Friday, July 17, 2009
see more Engrish
And they can use PCR to find out who the daddy is:
(And before anyone lights into me for posting an "Engrish" funny and making fun of people for whom English is not the first language: I will openly observe that I could not write as well in, say, German as the authors of that fortune are writing in English. I think the humor (such as it is) comes from the fact that there is an actual saying that is "Necessity is the mother of invention," which I suppose translated into another language and forced back into English* could read like that)
(* Famously, Mark Twain allegedly found a copy of his jumping-frog story translated into French, and then back-translated it. (The link is to Google books, so I cannot vouch for the entire story being complete; for "copyright" reasons, Google often omits pages. Though I think Twain is now in public domain. The "back translation" is at the very end of the book.)
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