On NPR a day or two ago, there was a "Perspective" (listener op-ed piece) from a sixteen year old black girl who goes to high school in Oakland. I'm paraphrasing horribly, but the gist that I took away from it is that she's curious why so much has been made of Columbine when that sort of thing is far too common where she goes to school and where she lives.
A couple upper-middle-class white teenage boys whacking a dozen classmates isn't more tragic just because it's more unusual.
Perhaps we all need to examine why we're not doing more to make everywhere a more civilzed place to live, instead of just snow-white Colorado.
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Regarding using BabelFish (to translate literature),... Mark Twain demonstrated the folly of such an enterprise by translating one of his short stories to French and then back to English. The resulting text lacked Twain's style, and was unreadable.
Mark Twain used Babelfish? I didn't think it'd been around that long.
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A couple upper-middle-class white teenage boys whacking a dozen classmates isn't more tragic just because it's more unusual.
Perhaps we all need to examine why we're not doing more to make everywhere a more civilzed place to live, instead of just snow-white Colorado.
ahem.
Mark Twain used Babelfish? I didn't think it'd been around that long.