Work Room - Week 24

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The new topic is up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/788789.html

and I can't wait until people start googling and linking it back.

Because I have a feeling this is going to be a fun week!

But it's also a week where people are likely to have similar entries. What are you going to do to make yourself stand out from the crowd?

Comments

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Ideas:

-any malfunctioning machinery that causes illogical but regular aberrations ('cause spell check, if it is not being 'trained' in the process, will go on replacing the same words with the same ones);

- translator's false friends. Because while this spell check business happens in every language, the Cupertino thing is specific to English, and if you don't know it is called thus, you won't be able to translate it correctly.
My favourite example of this would be what you say when someone sneezes.
In English, it's "Bless you" (and remember the fairy tale where devil took his young fool helper to a wedding telling him he was going after his bride. But the bride was the actual bride at the wedding, and she kept sneezing quietly and had she sneezed thrice without anyone saying "Bless you", the devil would've taken her. But the young fool couldn't do it and said "Bless you" himself, thus ending his service for the devil, and falling from the rafters into the crowd, but saving the bride.)
In Russian, it's "Bud'te zdovorovy", "Your health", or "Be healthy".
In French, it's "A vos souhaits", "Make a wish", or "To your wishes".

-and then the whole nasty business of who made which discovery first, and whose name it should carry. That is such a tug-of-war sometimes, with invented earlier achievements that should indicate it was your country first. But the naming does not always work this way, with giving the discovery the name of someone who was there second or third.
Here is an example of the reverse. It was the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen who discovered X-rays. And in most countries they are X-rays. Yet in Russia, they are known properly, as Röntgen rays.

Just food for thought.

Any other ideas? :)

[eternal-ot.livejournal.com]

"any malfunctioning machinery that causes illogical but regular aberrations"...That's a great interpretation..gives a wide scope to explore.
Here's something I found while researching .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ

[fodschwazzle.livejournal.com]

This poem was one of the first things I thought of with this topic. Very appropriate. Always funny.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

the malfunctioning machinery gives me an idea! thank you! man, i love the work room.