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What if you image-search Google.com for slang?
by Akira Kato
June 13, 2003
What a surprise! You see a lot of snakes, eh? One snake coils up here while another crawls away in the grass there. One snake seems to hiss and ready to jump at you. But it is strange because you cannot find any such entry in the menu page. So, I have clicked some of the pictures above. However, I have’t come up with any description. Most of the sites simply display pictures of various snakes, which puzzles me. Then I took a close look at each URL and realized that most of the URL end with .nl, which means the Netherlands. Unfortunately, I have never learned Danish. So I jumped to one of the transplation sites. However, not many sites offer Danish-English translation. After half an hour or so, I came up with this site: InterTran。 The result is as follows:
Voila! A slang means a snake in Danish. Of course, I suspected so when I had seen a dozen or so snakes in the above page. However, I had never expected to come up with so many snakes when I image-searched Google.com for slang. After all, slang has suddenly jumped to the front row of the world-lingo theater because of globalization of the Internet.
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