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Name: Vergil Iliescu
Location: Sydney, Australia

This blog is an exercise in self indulgence; a way of clarifying or testing my own thoughts - about the random things that interest me. Everything from politics to philosophy to poems and songs I like or even dislike. Putting it online forces me to think.

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

How to make quotes more deep and meaningful

Use Googles translation services to translate the sentence into German, which you then translate into french, which you then translate back into english. Thus:

A stitch in time saves nine becomes
A fixing in time stores nine

Look before you leap! becomes
Look at, before you do not jump!

...and David Weinberger's pithy quote
"We get to kick in the teeth the idealized and constricted set of behaviors known as professionalism" becomes

We receive to take a step the teeth in the idealised and narrowed sentence behaviour which as professionalism is known

which sounds quite profound.

Must. stop. doing. this. in. public.

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