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English isn’t always translated perfectly, and some things have strange and wonderful meanings when read from the perspective of an English speaker.

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Lost world

Posted on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 by Sebastian Barney
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The Spanish airline Iberia seems to be missing something on their world map.

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Honesty in advertising

Posted on Wednesday, 1 June 2011 by Sebastian Barney
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Items banned on Mexican trains

Posted on Saturday, 2 April 2011 by Sebastian Barney
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While I understand the desire to ban food, drinks and guns from Mexican trains; I wouldn’t put them all in the same category.

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Umm yeah

Posted on Wednesday, 3 November 2010 by Sebastian Barney
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I think the sign speaks for itself.

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The shape God takes

Posted on Monday, 2 August 2010 by Sebastian Barney
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If this is the form god takes I think I can start to understand omnipresence. God is on our kitchen table, carried in lunch boxes to school and work, listening in on our dinner conversations, and there when greed and gluttony call upon us for a midnight snack.

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God isn’t the meat in life’s sandwich, god is the sandwich.

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Information Systems Lecturer (UNSW) • Apiring globetrotter • SCUBA diver • Spanish student • Melbournian (Australia)
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