Got a big box in the mail today, which included author copies of two Asian editions: the Japanese edition, which I had seen before, and this:
That is, obviously, the Chinese edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. I say “obviously” mostly because I know that edition was about ready to roll out– I can’t say anything about the actual characters on the cover, other than that they don’t include any katakana, and thus it’s not the Japanese edition, and they’re not hangul characters, meaning it’s not the Korean edition. Other than that, I got nothing.
If you can read Chinese, and provide a translation of the cover text, particularly the two questions in orange and the exclamation in blue, I’d love to know what that says. I’d also be happy to provide a link to a source where you could buy these, but the vanity search hasn’t led me to one, and I have absolutely no idea how I would Google one up.
Collaborating with my wife, we’ve decided on this as a translation:
Title: “Lean physics with a puppy/doggy”
The exclamation: Easy to learn, even dogs can understand quantum physics!
Question #1: how come I can’t catch a squirrel through a wall?
Question #2: is there a delicious steak in another universe?
The writing is in traditional Chinese, the character set used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Simplified Chinese, such as they use in China, is somewhat different.
I would translate the blue exclamation as “You can easily learn quantum physics that even a puppy can understand!”, since it is one sentence, not two.
actually the literal translation is
accompany/follow dog-dog (doggy) together learn physics
Here’s one place to buy it: http://www.hkbookcity.com/showbook2.php?serial_no=211554
I don’t know if this will show up, but here’s the title so you can copy and paste it into Google: è·ççä¸èµ·å¸ç©ç
Awesome!