The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation

[pne]

What if Abraham Lincoln had delivered the Gettysburg address not as a speech but as a PowerPoint presentation?

Peter Norvig has mocked up an example, showcasing typically-bad bite-sized PowerPoint bullet points rather than eloquent rhetoric.

It's not new, but I thought I'd mention it again.

Comments

[ubykhlives.livejournal.com]

chaq chu'be', 'ach wej vIlegh jIH. junobqa'ta'mo' qatlho'!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Cor, my Klingon is really rusty. But I did manage to understand without having to consult my dictionary, though my mental pathways were creaking from disuse.

How to willfully mistranslate as much as possible

[pne.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps she does not activate it, but the viewing screen sees three (of them)."

Re: How to willfully mistranslate as much as possible

[pne.livejournal.com]

Darn - the "vI-" negates the possibility of translating "jIH" as "viewing screen".

Re: How to willfully mistranslate as much as possible

[ubykhlives.livejournal.com]

Never mind - I found it funny anyway. :) I hadn't noticed just how many potentially ambiguous words there were in that sentence!