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Archive for May 30th, 2008

The Daily Mail: an unwanted helping hand

The Daily Mail regularly offers an (unwelcome) helping hand to politicians along the “Mussolini made the trains run on time” sort of line. Obviously the habit of giving an unwanted hand has now spread to their art department. Sad to say they’ve more-or-less fixed the original. (HT Photoshop Disasters)

 

May 30th, 2008 | Category: Miscellaneous | Leave a comment

Coding for inculturation: is there a core gospel?

Eddie has a go at exploring the metaphor of software localization as a way of exploring what happens in cross-cultural mission, and where it might differ from translation. It’s all worth reading, but here is his conclusion:
After all, in Translation, the language changes, but the core message does not change. However, I think that the [...]

May 30th, 2008 | Category: Culture, Mission, Translation | Comments (5)

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