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Re: The Mabus Case
« Reply #20 on: 06/03/2014 07:49:07 »
Just shows what you can achieve by mistranslating medieval French. Surely Et = "and", not "in" (en) and Pavillon = "flag".
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Re: The Mabus Case
« Reply #21 on: 06/03/2014 09:01:39 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 06/03/2014 07:49:07
Just shows what you can achieve by mistranslating ...

there's an app for that ... http://ackuna.com/badtranslator [:)]    [cf. cognitive slippage ]
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Re: The Mabus Case
« Reply #22 on: 10/05/2014 05:54:47 »

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