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Old 12-04-2015, 04:22 PM   #95
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Here's how "out there" I get sometimes: in a fantasy (other--not Earth--world fantasy), a character used the word "quixotic" in spoken dialogue.

Believe me ... I don't want to be that picky. But these things rise up to trip me right out of my (admittedly a little shallow) immersion.
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I'm fairly certain I was a continuity consultant in another life.


Let's be fair. They probably had some other word entirely, and the author was having mercy on us poor souls who don't speak their language by translating stuff for us.
Certainly, translating culturally meaningful words and sayings.
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