Friday's ILL of the day is The Awful German Language by Mark Twain. Now Captain ILL's fluency in German is thanks to Google's language translation tool, so he can't speak for the accuracy of this title. In fact, the title isn't how this item received ILL of the day honors. This item is the ILL of the day because it's not even clear why this is a book. Captain ILL is only guessing at the mysterious origins of this book, but as far as he can tell it goes something like this: some time ago, someone at Duke University takes photographs of appendix "D" of A Tramp Abroad. They then staple them together and tape pieces of cardboard to the front and back and call it a book. Then they catalog the thing and years later a Sno-Isle patron finds it in Worldcat and fills out a RINC for it instead of checking out A Tramp Abroad which Sno-Isle owns 10 copies of in large and regular print. What a strange and convoluted world we live in!
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Dear Capt: The German language IS awful. It's a wonder that the nation has been populated. Just roll the words of love off your tongue: "Ich liebe du." Ick.
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