THE WONDER OF IT ALL

The folks who invented the WonderPizza vending system had a great idea: piping hot pizza from a machine in less than two minutes. But they really need to pay attention to the small details, like, for instance, how their carefully crafted sales copy translates into another language. Got this heads-up from Short Takes fan Dave M., who was kind enough to send along a Spanish translation from the WonderPizza-Spain site: “Pizza is an exquisite food, that not only delights but that also it satisfies. And extremely it is balanced from the nutricional point of view, fitting totally in the new tendency towards the Mediterranean food, that all the nutricionales doctors and studies guarantee more and more.” Want to see more? Google “WonderPizza” and click on the “translate this” button of the overseas sites. Oh, go ahead, it’s Friday; you’re done for the week anyway!