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   Message 2,693 of 4,347   
   mark lewis to Anton Shepelev   
   An exercise in transation   
   09 Jul 19 18:28:00   
   
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    On 2019 Jul 10 01:16:10, you wrote to me:   
      
    ML>> orange is also the name of a fruit in english...   
      
    AS> Russian has separate words for  the  fruit  and  the  color,   
      
   that's interesting... i'm learning something!   
      
   can you write what the two words are? maybe i can paste them into google   
   translate to see the differences?   
      
    AS> whereas  in  English  they are one.  Likhanov used the fruit word to   
    AS> denote the color, so I wanted an English  word  more associated  with   
    AS> the fruit than with the color, even though it can denote both.   
      
   i can understand that... translating things is a special gift... especially   
   when marking subtle tings like the difference between an orange (the fruit)   
   and an orange color...   
      
    ML>> i love eating  oranges...  especially  navel  oranges... moreso  when   
    ML>> the navel is large enough to eat as well... like a smaller orange   
    ML>> within a larger one :)   
      
    AS> I thought it was a kind of nameless defect, but now  I  know the   
    AS> English term -- and a good one, too!   
      
   yep! some of them aren't so good to try to eat but when they are good, they're   
   very good ;)   
      
   )\/(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.   
   ... Waiting for the world's applause.   
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