X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ddf1c603392b667 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-24 21:26:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feedme.news.mediaways.net!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!news.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail From: Bateau Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Fuzzball in: "Sherman and Cinderella" Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:24:50 +0800 Message-ID: References: <7adarusiiq9mm5a2262tn26co8cttobjmi@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: i205-050.nv.iinet.net.au X-Trace: news.iinet.net.au 1035519731 28858 203.59.205.50 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:20139 ____ On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:36:26 GMT \__/___ Eurakarte ran through the LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art | waving an axe and screaming: / \ >On 22 Oct 2002, Bateau bought a plush >plankton doll and said: > >>>Fun as always, but glass is a good conductor of heat. >>>That's what makes it a poor _insulator_ of heat. I like >>>the new website design, btw. :) >> >> Funnily enough in the original story they were fur slippers. > >I believe the story is that when translating it from its >original French, some menial translator-type person misread >'vair', fox fur, as 'verre', glass. Giving you the odd >situation of glass slippers. You know, you wouldn't >believe how often the chance to use my encyclopedic >knowledge of mistranslations in fairy tales comes up! I heard it was originally a chinese story which explains why Cinderella was so attractive (she had smaller feet than anyone else) and that the sisters all broke their feet and stuff to try and make the slippers fit. -- | _ .\ ~~ _ ^~ | <')_,/ , ; .\ >(')__, . ` ' , | (_~=/ \._`.'. .\ (_~_/ _, _..-''-._,____,----,____ | ='- \=~_) ; .\ ~^~~^~ ` (_~_/ `'--'` `~~~~)_)=\_\-.( | -'= .\ ~^~ ~^~~^~ ICQ:11367619 EMAIL:bateau:-)jupiter-io.net WEB:http://tyrian2000.cjb.net