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   mark lewis to Anton Shepelev   
   An exercise in transation   
   04 Jul 19 20:12:24   
   
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    On 2019 Jul 05 00:55:16, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
    AK>> with a lush mandarine blanket =>   
    AK>> with a lush orange blanket   
      
    AS> Have  you  read  the original, which indeed has "orange"?  I   
    AS> chaged it to "mandarine" because in English  "orange"  is  a   
    AS> common  color  name,  whereas  Likhanov used the name of the   
    AS> fruit rather than of the color and  I  wanted  to  emphasise   
    AS> that fruit association.   
      
   orange is also the name of a fruit in english... i love eating oranges...   
   especially navel oranges... moreso when the navel is large enough to eat as   
   well... like a smaller orange within a larger one :)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was   
   so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected   
   up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing   
   the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn   
   it off.   
   ... You know you're in YK when: the snowman begs you to take him inside at   
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