Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Translation on QI

On Stephen Fry’s wonderful QI, on the episode about “Inequality”, he recently mentioned that Louis Pasteur so hated the Germans after the Franco-Prussian war, that he would never allow his work to be translated to German. That then influenced the beer industry. See how translation crops up in the unlikeliest of places?

3 comments:

Andrew Shields said...

Have you fact-checked him on this one? :-)

B.J. Epstein said...

Haha, I should have done. Somehow when Stephen Fry says something, you just believe he knows what he's talking about!

Best wishes,
BJ

Andrew Shields said...

The other day, I stumbled across a Blackadder episode set during World War One, and Fry played a general who gave the impression that he had no idea what he was talking about! :-)