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Old 11-13-2015, 02:30 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow View Post
I think you are right here Katsunami, but regardless of that - there ARE people out there maintaining such a belief. I've met some of them - no joke. And as I'm a translator myself you might imagine that I'm not exactly sure whether to laugh or to cry when exposed to such epic levels of ignorance.
Can you imagine what fun it is to help a German teenager with their English essay created by running a German text through Google Translate (either the whole text or word by word - there are two distinct schools), and the kid smiling indulgently while this old analog age fart is trying to explain what is wrong about that?

For the record: Anne Frank wrote in German, not in Dutch.
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