It’s nearly a week since the Oscars, but my computer’s been at the shop for an upgrade. So, anyway, how did CCTV-6 translate the first main sentence of Sean Penn’s acceptance speech? Given the many failings of my translations on this... ...full story at Black & White Cat
from Black & White Cat on Sun, Mar 01 2009
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