http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/12/19/from-dick-dell%e2%80%99s-christmas-letter/ Random rants and curious explanation. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/12/19/from-dick-dell%e2%80%99s-christmas-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-2434 Al Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:54:40 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/12/19/from-dick-dell%e2%80%99s-christmas-letter/#comment-2434 Great example. One human equivalent comes to mind -- the Scandinavians who launched a new U.S. campaign to sell their vacuum cleaners with the slogan, "Nothing Sucks Like Electrolux." Great example. One human equivalent comes to mind — the Scandinavians who launched a new U.S. campaign to sell their vacuum cleaners with the slogan, “Nothing Sucks Like Electrolux.”

]]> http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/12/19/from-dick-dell%e2%80%99s-christmas-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-2425 Mark Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:11:48 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2008/12/19/from-dick-dell%e2%80%99s-christmas-letter/#comment-2425 Our language mix-ups have been passed on to the Robots. Carl Sagan would tell the story of an early language interpreter that translated the phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" from English to Russian and then back to English. It ended up with "Blind idiot". Our language mix-ups have been passed on to the Robots. Carl Sagan would tell the story of an early language interpreter that translated the phrase “Out of sight, out of mind” from English to Russian and then back to English. It ended up with “Blind idiot”.

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