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Philip Newton ([personal profile] pne) wrote2005-06-16 09:39 am
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The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation

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.

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[identity profile] ubykhlives.livejournal.com 2005-06-16 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
chaq chu'be', 'ach wej vIlegh jIH. junobqa'ta'mo' qatlho'!
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[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2005-06-16 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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How to willfully mistranslate as much as possible

[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2005-06-16 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps she does not activate it, but the viewing screen sees three (of them)."
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[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2005-06-16 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Darn - the "vI-" negates the possibility of translating "jIH" as "viewing screen".

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[identity profile] ubykhlives.livejournal.com 2005-06-19 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Never mind - I found it funny anyway. :) I hadn't noticed just how many potentially ambiguous words there were in that sentence!
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