Z: A Stone of Stocks Does Not Enter Foam Rubber (Reader Comments and Addenda)
Samuel Goldstein provides another folkloric example of a machine-translated proverb: English: Out of sight, out of mind. English—>Russian—>English: Invisible lunatic. I'd seen it before (in the same place as the vodka bit—perhaps a Smullyan book?) but had forgotten it. (Last updated: 17 March 1998) Back to column Z