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'''Simon Prentis''' was Zappa's "Semantic Scrutinizer" - translator, in other words. Zappa, stated that Prentis is the only translator working on the numerous foreign language versions of his material that he completely trusted. Gail and Frank asked Simon to take over as translator after they found out that a lot of the earlier translations were wrong.
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[[image:Prentis.jpeg|right|thumb|250px|Simon Prentis, FZ, [[Gerry Fialka ]], [[Gail Zappa]]]]
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'''Simon Prentis''' was Zappa's 'Semantic Scrutinizer'/translator. Zappa said that Prentis is the only translator working on the numerous foreign language versions of his material that he completely trusted. Gail and Frank asked Simon to take over as translator after they found out that a lot of the earlier translations were wrong.
  
Simon Prentis is one of the people receiving thanks for their ''"very special but no less significant contributions"'' in ''[[The Yellow Shark]]'' liner notes. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_Yellow_Shark.html#Acknowledgements</ref> He was also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)|The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>
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Prentis is included in the list of names in the [[The Yellow Shark]] liner notes and in the liner notes of [[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)|The MOFO Project/Object]] (2006) album.  
  
 
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Latest revision as of 02:55, 14 December 2021

Simon Prentis, FZ, Gerry Fialka , Gail Zappa

Simon Prentis was Zappa's 'Semantic Scrutinizer'/translator. Zappa said that Prentis is the only translator working on the numerous foreign language versions of his material that he completely trusted. Gail and Frank asked Simon to take over as translator after they found out that a lot of the earlier translations were wrong.

Prentis is included in the list of names in the The Yellow Shark liner notes and in the liner notes of The MOFO Project/Object (2006) album.

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