A while ago I shared a quote about the value of a dollar. At the time I'd read ahead in the original, and hadn't yet reached that point in the translation, though I've been looking forward to that moment ever since.
That moment arrived today. Last few days I kept getting interrupted so I was on the verge, but didn't quite get there. Then, today I finally got to the point only to find that it was so poorly translated that it needed some major help.
If you read Japanese, you might be interested in seeing the actual words in question on my Japanese blog. Basically, rather than a discussion of the value of money, it was a discussion of one's ability to discern the whole from a small sample. Mr. Tozer, it said, could do it accurately 90% of the time, while it was rare for Bert to do better than 50%.
Needing a clear head, I had to take a nap before fixing it, but afterward I replaced that with some homemade Japanese that I think gets pretty close to the heart of the matter. We'll see if my Japanese readers agree.
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