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Originally Posted by JSWolf
This mistake is one of my pet peeves that would drop me out of a book. It's "a European". [...]
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Sure, but since I was stopping to highlight as a prime example of racism, I was already "out" of the book, so didn't care much. I would be interested some time to go through a more modern translation to see how it reads.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I think he would if he knew that it was today's paper and not yesterday's.
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As someone that pays no attention to the lands he is (so rapidly) passing, it seems doubtful to me that he'd bother with local newspapers - what could they possibly contain to interest him?