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andrepd on Aug 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Frink

Funny how one of the examples for translation

>"I will not buy this record; it is scratched." -> Spanish >No compraré este expediente; se rasguña.

is wrong x).

moeffju on Aug 13, 2018 [–]

I think that is the joke, it's a reference to a Monty Python sketch about a (deliberately?) wrong Hungarian phrasebook. "I will not buy this record, it is scratched" is one of the examples in the sketch.

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