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Twittering the first lines of books so you don't have to!
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TwitterLit in Translation
Now you can subscribe by RSS to receive TwitterLit posts in a host of different translations: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Each is a Babel Fish translation of the English TwitterLit feed. What does this mean? Probably that you're in for some comical mistranslations: Babel Fish can output some howlers. But hey! That means more fun for us, and a greater challenge for folks trying to identify the source of the first line before clicking the link to Amazon.
Here, for example, is one TwitterLit post in English:
| "If Sarah hadn't put the monkey in the bathtub, we might never have had to help the monsters get big." |
In the German translation feed, this comes out as:
| "wenn Sarah den Affen nicht in die Badewanne eingesetzt hatte, konnten wir den Monstern helfen nie gemußt haben, groß zu erhalten." |
If we plug the German translation back into Babel Fish and translate it back into English, we get:
| "if Sarah the ape had begun to have helped the monsters not into the bath tub, could we have never had to keep large." |
Hilarity ensues! Hope you enjoy it.
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There are three versions of TwitterLit--US, UK, and CA--which you can subscribe to by a variety of means:
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(The UK and CA versions of TwitterLit feature the same first lines but link to Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca respectively.) TwitterLit Widgets Click here for directions on adding a customizable TwitterLit widget to your site. TwitterLit in Translation Subscribe to Babel Fish translations of TwitterLit by RSS. |
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