THEME: LAN

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
July 31, 1994	75	CURSES!	Come up with modern maledictions in the wise and entertaining Yiddish tradition.	LAN	Text file | Contest image
April 16, 1995	109	SEND US YOUR MAIL PARTS	We're looking for funny examples of pidgin English that try to say one thing, but actually say something quite different.	LAN	Text file | Contest image
March 28, 2004	551	Lost in Translation	Find us some comical translations-and-back using Google translator. Feed some passage of English text into the tool--25 words max--and ask it to translate it into one of the five languages offered; then copy the result back into the tool and ask it to translate that back to English.	GOO LAN	Text file
July 5, 2008	772	Make It Simile, Stupid	Translate a sentence or two of literature or other good writing so that "Los Angeles residents under 40" can appreciate it.	LAN LIT CUL	Text file
June 6, 2009	820	Be Mister Language Person	Supply a Mister Language Person-type question and answer.	LAN QUE	Text file | Contest image
December 4, 2010	897	Catch their drift	Take any sentence from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Dec. 3 to Dec. 13 and translate it into "plain English."	WAS LAN	Text file
September 11, 2011	936	Hoho contendere	Slightly alter a well-known foreign-language term and define it.	LAN WOR	Text file | Post e-version
June 24, 2012	977	Lost in Translation 2.0	Translate a line of text from English into another language using Google Translate; then copy that result and translate it back into English. You may also make intermediate steps into one or more other languages.	GOO LAN	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 28, 2015	1130	Yux Redux: Play on a foreign phrase	Make a word play on a foreign phrase or term (or English phrase using foreign words) and describe it. (Conversational text)	WOR LAN	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
October 6, 2019	1352	Hee-rotica -- Steamy prose for unsteamy life	Write a short steamy scene (100 words would be considered long) about a non-steamy event. (Conversational text)	LAN	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
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