Speed Translation This article came to me through a news service for linguists. Apparently, excited fans are already translating HBP into Russian for their friends, months ahead of when the "official" translation is due to come out. Websites had the first *four* chapters up by three days after the release!

In case you didn't know, translation is really time-consuming. Any shortcuts end up resulting in the kind of nonsense that you get from Babelfish. So, I would call this "speed translation"--motivated by the kind of obsession that we *know* people have about Harry Potter. ;-)

Cool stuff, nonetheless. ;-)  ¶ 9:54 PM