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Old 08-18-2022, 10:42 PM   #342
Uncle Robin
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
I was once reading a fantasy novel (not at all based on our Earth/Universe) in which a character used the word "quixotic" in dialogue..
Since the character in question would not have been speaking English at all 'in real life' as it were, I see this as a Babel Fish thing, the character's words being translated into words the reader would understand. It would actually be interesting to see how that word was translated if the book was available in other terrestrial languages
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