Five: "Shape Japer, you've got to stop sliding these shapes around!"
Shape Japer: "Quai!! Quai!"
Five: "What? You're going to stop sliding things?"
Shape Japer: "Yeah!"
— Numberjacks, "Slide and Turn"
Terl: (in his Psychlo language) You will soon be relocated to a new mining site, and if any of you get any bright ideas about escaping, just keep in mind that although you know nothing about firearms, I certainly do. I graduated top marksman in my class and I can kill any one of you at over a thousand paces. (to Jonnie) Tell them what I've said.
Jonnie: (to the other humans) If we try to run, he'll kill us.
(Beat)
Terl: That's all?
Jonnie: (to the other humans) If we try to run, he'll kill us.
(Beat)
Terl: That's all?
Susato: Yes... William Shakespeare is England's most highly regarded classical playwright and author. He's known as 'Sao' in Japanese, as you know, and many of his works have already been translated.
Ryunosuke: It seems incredible that ‘Shakespeare' was shortened to 'Sao', though. Someone was too heavy-handed there...
Ryunosuke: It seems incredible that ‘Shakespeare' was shortened to 'Sao', though. Someone was too heavy-handed there...
Your French translator calls and says, "Look, you've got a "Like" button here, and what I want to put in is 'J'aime' — 'I like' — but it's not quite big enough? I need you to make the button bigger?" And there's problems like this all over the place, where sentences that take five syllables in English actually take a whole two-paragraph description in some other language.
—Tom Scott, Computerphile, "Internationalis(z)ing Code"
