Wen Tsao

Lost in Google Translate Wen Tsao

Thank you, who are brave enough to challenge this fiction. YOU will be the author of it because you have to use all your imagination to understand it. Try not to be misled by the words which are translated from Chinese by Google Translate, which is quite nice by the way. Try to read beyond the words. This fiction cannot be meaningful without your imagination and experiences. You will be the one that solves all the puzzles lost in translation in the fiction, and the one that makes it a unique one that is meaningful to you only. You are writing it while reading it. Words can tell you something only after you process them in your mind. You are the only one that can tell you something. This story is about a big secret of a normal man who cannot tell who he really is and who tries very hard to fit into the world. Living in two different identities seems the only one choice for him. When the story goes, it becomes a common situation for everyone nowadays. It seems very normal now in the internet world for people to have two different identities: one is for the internet, the other one behind the screen. Although secrets are supposed to be hidden deep down in the mind, we also know that what a relief it can be if the secrets can be revealed and known by someone. Using Google translate might be a good way for people to tell their secrets out loud. When the secrets are translated by you, they become yours. It is the fun part of telling secrets. We all have our own secrets, so that we can understand others'. More, the day has come for people to re-think the function of language. When the world is getting smaller because of the internet and all kinds of communication systems, there seems to be a call for some kind of universal language in the world, and a call for us to think that communication should be made by our love and concerns for each other instead of words or languages, which become more ambiguous when there are too much information in the world and when people are getting less patient. What we need now is less talking, but more listening. Trying to understand each other beyond words may be the key for communication nowadays.