The Corner

Tenure

Ramesh: I’m sorry, but my attention has been trapped this past 5 minutes of

so by the first sentence in one of your e-mails: “If Jonathan has this much

time to waste with me when he doesn’t have it, I can hardly imagine how much

he’ll have when he gets it.” Unable to encompass it, I used Babelfish

to translate it into Chinese and

then translate the Chinese back into English. This is what I got: “If

Jonathan had by now wastes with me worked as his it, how many I could nearly

not imagine him obtain when him it.” That’s better!

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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