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I was listening to the radio this morning. There was a commercial for a foreign languages school - you know, Berlitz kind of thing. (Actually, I think it was Berlitz.) Anyway, the advert was a skit on how translations from one language to another can be treacherous for the uninitiated. [Deeej, should that be 'traitorous'?] So their 'mistranslation' into English of the original sentence "are foreign languages difficult for you?" was rendered: "Do you get hard on foreign lips?". I can't wait for their next commercial.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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