Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.                 /T. Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky, p. 349/

Saturday 11 May 2013

Google Translate says eat flavor corpse

Er...
this is why language is more than just the sum of its parts. (As are many things in life, true. (Or rather, life itself.))

About a month ago I tried to converse in Dutch way more than I do now (I was taking a course and now ... well, lets just say May and Queensday and many, too many holidays, feestdagen have taken their toll on me).
  And at one point, I wanted to wish someone a nice meal. I thought to check before I write it, since I wasn't sure about the -e. Well, you can see the result below. :)