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Today is Saturday, July 4, 2009 4:49 pm (U.S. central time).

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
-- Rolande Barthes

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Google Blogoscoped has translated several Garfield strips into Chinese and back again using Google Translate.

Here’s the text, in case the strip is hard to read at this size.

Jon: Garfield, I retrieved a pair of slippers
Garfield: I am sorry, the cat is not worth a pair of slippers
Garfield: I will, however, capture extract