Ship's translator · fault log

Lost in Translation

The Lab translates every sign, menu board and banner it photographs into plain English. Since the lightning of 1957, it doesn't always manage. These are the frames where the lettering came out of the tank in a script nobody aboard can read. Nurse Marguerite stamps each one and files it here. (Somebody keeps pencilling translations in the margins. They are always rubbed out by morning.) Why? The ship's translator →