Playboy Japan interview

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

As one example of the conceivable confusion resulting from re-translation,  I 
heard of this one instance where an English expression - "out of sight, out 
of  mind" was translated into Japanese and then back into English, and the 
result  was "invisible lunatic"...
 
RF
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