Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!bradford@Amsaa.ARPA From: bradford@Amsaa.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Now and Then. Message-ID: <12406@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 08:44:26 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12406 Posted: Tue Aug 14 08:44:26 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:15:40 EDT Lines: 18 From: Pete Bradford (CSD UK)A short news item came to mind when reading a recent letter on 'cause and effect'. It has very little to do with even less, but I found it very amusing: A current production of Shakespear's Hamlet in Tokyo has the imortal line 'To be, or not to be - that is the question.' translated into Japanese with the following meaning; "It is,or is it? Isn't it? (!) PJB