I
gave up reading translations to Croatian language long time ago -
generally they are unacceptable, poorly translated, poorly edited.
The price for that is rather high because I miss the works on
languages I don’t master.
Recently,
however, one of them caught my eye with the title Kad slučajnost
odlučuje (in English it would be When chance decides). I just couldn’t
believe that the author, Amir D. Aczel, would put such a title. And,
yes, the English original title is just Chance. Chance means absence
of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or
controlled and author gives suggestions how to make a decision when
the only thing you know about the event is some probability. The
decision is yours!
I
consider unlikely the translator (Dušan Trbojević) doctored the
title, more likely the editor (Damir Mikuličić) did it. Hey, Damir,
remember the lectures on Statistical Physics?