Is That a Fish in Your Ear? (2011)
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Bellos describes what happened when Douglas Hofstadter asked people to translate the same short French poem by Clément Marot. The versions differed even when they plainly belonged to the same poem. Start here for an accessible tour that goes from verse to jokes and the choices interpreters make when the speaker is still talking.
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