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Old 01-12-2016, 02:15 PM   #89
Little.Egret
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
The biggest problem I have found is the non English speakers putting out books in English.
I still remember a self help book that had something about house worms with depression.
But usually the book description and introduction gives it away.

(Cookery book) I particularly enjoyed "stupid end of a knife" (blunt side?) and Suffocation, Stifling and Choke duration. The random scattering of untranslated Bulgarian words ("preserve vitaminoznoto svaravat your content" is less amusing and recalls the worst results of Babelfish and the recipes that express (probably) 500 g of potatoes as .500 kg (I would use 0.5 kg) are real road blocks.
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