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Re: languages

From: David Merchant <merchant~at~LATECH.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:13:28 -0500
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Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:13:29 -0500 (CDT)

Aye, the Bible may be the most translated, but it looks like it may tie for
first place; from the Index Translationum Web site
(http://www.unesco.org/culture/xtrans/html_eng/index4.shtml) we learn that:

"For a long time Lenin, Queen of Crime Agatha Christie, The Bible and Walt
Disney jostled for a place among the top four. Lenin having fallen into
fourth place the triumvirate has Ms Christie, the Walt Disney Company and
The Holy Book scrambling for first place. In these days of market
capitalism Disney has a definite edge with surging new found popularity in
the former Warsaw pact nations."

The site lists the top 10 most translated authors as:

Walt Disney Productions
Agatha Christie
The Bible
Lenin
Jules Verne
Barbara Cartland
Enid Blyton
William Shakespeare
Hans Christian Andersen
The Grimm Brothers
Received on Fri 20 Aug 2004 - 18:32:56 IDT

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