04-30-2013, 06:44 AM | #16 | |
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The caption was the topic of the competiton, and is nicely compact in Russian: Читать не вредно. Вредно не читать. Google gives it (word by word) as Read not harmful. Harmful not reading. I tried to come up with a colloquial English translation, but the best I could come up with (keeping the neat reversal, but being rather longer) was "Reading is not the problem. The problem is not reading." There's a high-resolution of the original here which contains a copyright notice from the publisher, ООО Издательство Эксмо (Eksmo Publishing Ltd.), so I suspect that the competition included assigning copyright of the entries to the publisher, as is common in such competitions. Last edited by pdurrant; 04-30-2013 at 06:52 AM. |
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04-30-2013, 07:50 AM | #17 |
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Thanks avantman42 and pdurrant! Apparently your Google-fu is stronger than mine. Or maybe you were already familiar with it?
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04-30-2013, 08:10 AM | #19 |
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04-30-2013, 08:58 AM | #20 |
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04-30-2013, 09:01 AM | #21 |
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04-30-2013, 10:31 AM | #22 | |
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Of course traveling around inner cities I have seen far worse. It's life. Unfortunately perhaps, but still life. |
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04-30-2013, 11:26 AM | #23 |
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No, I've not come across it before. Working from avantman42's link, finding the original website wasn't too hard, although it took a google images "more sizes" search to find the hi-res version.
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04-30-2013, 11:44 AM | #24 |
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I guess it comes from the Russian proverb
Хотеть не вредно, вредно не хотеть. Не begins to die that quits his desires. (literal meaning - To want is not harmful, it's harmful to not want) Some more pics, but since they are all in Russian, I think the one in the first post of the thread wins without doubt. |
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The point of the illustration is clear without any of this "realism." It is also clear without the offensive word, so why include it? |
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04-30-2013, 03:39 PM | #27 |
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FWIW, I love the original photo in post #1, and I do think it loses a bit by being cleaned up, but I still removed it (but left a link where the original can be viewed) from the original post because I don't feel that it's safe for the workplace. It's regrettable, but I feel if we're going to retain our family-friendly/workplace-safe reputation, it needed to be done. You can lay all the blame with me.
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04-30-2013, 03:49 PM | #28 |
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If I may suggest: words are words. It is how they are used that is offensive. In this case, it was used to make a point about the nature of reality. It shouldn't be offensive unless you find reality offensive. Which, alas, it sometimes is.
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