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, 23:41, 26 August 2005Good point. I hadn't realized it was an old story.
[[User:Mojca Miklavec|Mojca]]
I guess perhaps I jumped on that a bit too quickly; it didn't occur to me to consider that it might be a translation! (And also I presumed that, when the article I linked to cited it as "from $OtherJournal, reprinted with permission" that the person at $OtherJournal thought it was their permission to give. It would have been nice if they'd been a little more clear that it was a retelling of an old story.)
In any case, given that the original story dates back to at least 1911, it's certainly out of copyright. My impression is that the particular wording of the translation/retelling of it is likely recent enough to be copyrighted -- which means that reusing that particular one may be iffy, but if you wanted to write a translation of the 1911 version (or, say, this [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterbeutelrattenlattengitterkofferattentäter Polish version] from the Polish-language Wikipedia that I found while looking at some of those 700 hits), it should be quite acceptable!
On sort of a tangent, I find it quite amusing how the story seems to vary from one version to the next. In the version you quoted, it's an opossum cage. The Polish version, when I found a machine-translator for it (sadly, I can't read German or Polish) said something about a kangaroo. And the 1911 telling seems to be something different again....
Anyhow, on the whole question of what this has to do with ConTeXt and whether it's appropriate for the Wiki -- it did seem a little odd to have this digression about why German is an easy language. On the other hand, it's quite a delightful little story, and if you did do a Wikiable translation, it would make a nice addition to the sample text files that Hans likes to use (like <code>\input{tufte}</code> and the like) -- it would certainly give the German-language hyphenation routines a nice workout.... Actually, that would be a nice thing to do with the it -- use it as an example on the Wiki for a bilingual document with German words embedded in English text, with hyphenation working according to the word's language (assuming ConTeXt can do that!). And then you could link from here to there.
--[[User:Brooks|Brooks]] 23:39, 26 Aug 2005 (UTC)