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When did you first hear [minwee]?

I was working in the valley as a relief translator: mainly crunching Toke, Samoan, Te Reo as well as French, German, Japanese, Malay and Vietnamese. The tests had to be written in every candidate’s native tongue. I was flicking through the library and I came across The Guards Themselves. Very prescient, you know, especially ‘Fake.’ This was at the beginning of The Crisis. The primers were all sitting The Sally Ann Test and the high-school students were being put through the Baron-Cohen Emotional Intelligence examination. The math students were all cramming these eye photos during their lunch breaks, each one trying to identify the correct expression. And then they began to run Turing tests on all the networks. Just in case.