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Poll: Which item would you give to a translation time capsule?
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Châu Nguyễn
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Probably Dec 1, 2014

My in-laws

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Mario Freitas
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Timecapsules! Dec 2, 2014

If you put something in a time capsule, it should be something to open 50 years from now and have some fun, not something to be useful or for information purposes. If you have something of that kind, it should be shared right now, and perhaps do some good for humanity, or at least for a group of people.

Why would you bury something useful and helpful for 50 years, which will likely be obsolete and useless when the capsule is opened?

I would put a folder of examples of m... See more
If you put something in a time capsule, it should be something to open 50 years from now and have some fun, not something to be useful or for information purposes. If you have something of that kind, it should be shared right now, and perhaps do some good for humanity, or at least for a group of people.

Why would you bury something useful and helpful for 50 years, which will likely be obsolete and useless when the capsule is opened?

I would put a folder of examples of mistranslations, Chinglish and signs that are circulating in the social networks. At least the people who will open the capsule may have some fun instead of finding a bunch of trash to incinerate. ▲ Collapse
 
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