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Thread poster: Elizabeth Sumner
Elizabeth Sumner
Elizabeth Sumner
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Russian to English
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Aug 6, 2007

It may just be an urban myth but I might start using the definitions! Enjoy: http://www.snopes.com/humor/misxlate/mutton.asp
 
Gerard de Noord
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France
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English to Dutch
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A friend of a friend of mine Aug 6, 2007

This is a true story.

A friend of a friend of mine thought nobody would ever find out that he had added some items in the Dutch translation of the American list of descriptions of what users shouldn't do with the company's product.

He was fired within weeks,
Gerard
 


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