Tuesday, June 26, 2007

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I hate it when translators try to approximate dialects. A Parisian cab driver, circa 1830, shouldn't speak with a cockney accent -- he just shouldn't.

Also: a tiger in Africa strikes me as a mundane if amusing mistake. A giant boa constrictor eating a wolf along the banks of the St Lawrence River strikes me as frankly bizarre, though who knows? If I were Nigerian instead of Canadian, maybe my reaction would be reversed.

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