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When nobody can hear you

Last night I watched an episode of Imagine about the Berlin Philharmonic on tour in Asia. It was a fascinating look inside an institution made up of highly talented and skilled people who must work together. One woman spoke about how her husband asked her why she bothered practising so much when nobody could actually hear her!
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Chinese Whispers

I’ve been playing with Babelfish trying to see what happens when you run a phrase through it multiple times. Right now I work on versioning learning content into Irish from English, so the whole translation process fascinates me. We have particular problems with colloquial phrases and idioms that just don’t translate well. One I had [...]
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