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2. Don't criticize without offering a sensible alternative: A key reason for our mangled China policy is that China hawks endlessly indict U.S. policy without proposing their own remedy.
And of mangled passages like that--now translated with too much freedom, now too literally--is to cover García Márquez's text with a thin, almost invisible varnish of strangeness, which is exactly what the author never meant to have happen.
Further to “Do Mistake--Learn Better” [XV,1]: During the Vietnamese conflict, the country was filled with mangled English-Vietnamese-English translations, especially in correspondence between assorted offices of the two nations.
The Farrelly brothers' latest slapstick is said to hark back to the screwball romances of the 1940s: The Dumb & Dumber directors temper their repulsive humor--which includes gags about a mangled penis and the mentally retarded--with a touching love story.
In fact, while its fondness for the most idiotic, juvenile humor knows no bounds, any strong emotion is taboo (unless you count horror at having your penis mangled)--that's part of the British influence, I guess.