A while ago I came across an amusing article about an author who ended up helping a pirate translate his book into Russian. The author found the rogue translat

A while ago I came across an amusing article about an author who ended up helping a pirate translate his book into Russian. The author found the rogue translator through a message board where the translator was asking for help with obscure English phrases. It's surprising both how much effort the translator went to, and how confused he was. For example, he thought "white-liberal guilt" might be guilt about using cocaine (since it's a white powder). Eventually the author decided to help the pirate achieve an accurate translation, since he seemed to be actually interested in the book. Check out the article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/steal-my-book/309105/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/steal-my...