GODWIN'S LAW INVOKED. THREAD OVER - Re: Most Perl 6 will look like Perl 5
jesse
jesse at fsck.com
Thu Jan 31 22:04:11 GMT 2008
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:48:20PM -0800, John Costello wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, jesse wrote:
>
> > > It's like watching a Chinese kung fu film badly dubbed into Russian -
> > > entertaining but incomprehensible.
>
> Or the card game Mao.
>
> > You should have seen Airplane! dubbed into Russian[1].
> >
> > [1] "Timmy, do you like gladiator movies?" became "Timmy, do you like
> > puppy dogs?" and "What do you think of my breasts?" became "My therapist
> > says I'm unbalanced!"
>
> Were both languages audible? That was the case with the kung fu film -
> Russian with an undercurrent of Chinese.
IIRC, yes.
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