As long as we're being picky, shouldn't "Based" in the translation of the first example start with a lower-case b? And shouldn't the translation for the second ad be in ALL CAPS? Good call on the missing space.
This was a fun little contest, and I feel honored that my translation images were used to illustrate the follow-up solutions article.
However-and not to look a gift horse in the mouth, nor to dinigrate the efforts of other winners, but-I'm not sure I agree with Ms. Stone about accepting the justification for the substitution of "end" for "and" in Figure #2. Apparently, this little change to the content of the text thwarted several of the entrants.
The spirit of Lunar's original adverts was meant to bring focus upon the applicants for whom those little differences are significant and important. If many of us were able to see the difference between the dingbats representing "a" and "e" surely we deserve to be distinguished from those who couldn't, or who were perhaps a bit careless or too hasty. I fully agree that the visual appearance of the two dingbats is very similar, but "Mac end design work" is grammatically clumsy and ambiguous, and I doubt Lunar would have phrased it that way in the first place. Further, there are corroborating examples of the "e" and "a" characters very nearby visually in the original image, and a reasonably quick inspection-using the translation for context-should have revealed and confirmed the difference, however subtle.
That said, though (and sorry to be such a picayune weasel!), my thanks to CreativePro for a fun contest, for using my images, and for the year's subscription to the InDesign Magazine PDFs. (And dang, I sure wish it was a dead-tree version)
Picky?
As long as we're being picky, shouldn't "Based" in the translation of the first example start with a lower-case b? And shouldn't the translation for the second ad be in ALL CAPS? Good call on the missing space.
It pays to be picky, sometimes.
This was a fun little contest, and I feel honored that my translation images were used to illustrate the follow-up solutions article.
However-and not to look a gift horse in the mouth, nor to dinigrate the efforts of other winners, but-I'm not sure I agree with Ms. Stone about accepting the justification for the substitution of "end" for "and" in Figure #2. Apparently, this little change to the content of the text thwarted several of the entrants.
The spirit of Lunar's original adverts was meant to bring focus upon the applicants for whom those little differences are significant and important. If many of us were able to see the difference between the dingbats representing "a" and "e" surely we deserve to be distinguished from those who couldn't, or who were perhaps a bit careless or too hasty. I fully agree that the visual appearance of the two dingbats is very similar, but "Mac end design work" is grammatically clumsy and ambiguous, and I doubt Lunar would have phrased it that way in the first place. Further, there are corroborating examples of the "e" and "a" characters very nearby visually in the original image, and a reasonably quick inspection-using the translation for context-should have revealed and confirmed the difference, however subtle.
That said, though (and sorry to be such a picayune weasel!), my thanks to CreativePro for a fun contest, for using my images, and for the year's subscription to the InDesign Magazine PDFs. (And dang, I sure wish it was a dead-tree version)
:o)