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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Translation on QI
On Stephen Fry’s wonderful QI, on the episode about “Inequality”, he recently mentioned that Louis Pasteur so hated the Germans after the Franco-Prussian war, that he would never allow his work to be translated to German. That then influenced the beer industry. See how translation crops up in the unlikeliest of places?
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3 comments:
Have you fact-checked him on this one? :-)
Haha, I should have done. Somehow when Stephen Fry says something, you just believe he knows what he's talking about!
Best wishes,
BJ
The other day, I stumbled across a Blackadder episode set during World War One, and Fry played a general who gave the impression that he had no idea what he was talking about! :-)
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