Thursday, September 11, 2008

The right word

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug”

Mark Twain

4 comments:

  1. Wonderful!
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  2. Very nice.

    Better, still, might be:

    The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lighting and lightening.

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  3. Love it! Hilariously enough, this is the quote we have had on our little company's website (http://www.twintranslations.com) for several years now. I am glad to see other translators are also using this wise quote! Mark Twain was a very smart man. Great blog, BTW.

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  4. the difference in my field of translation would be contract term and contractual term. I see it all the time.
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