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Lost in Translation, again

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They are well meant, the translations of German proverbs into English, to symbolically express what we really mean. But often these efforts get involuntarily funny. Katharina Loesche talks to translation expert Chris Dammann


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They are well meant, the translations of German proverbs into English, to symbolically express what we really mean. But often these efforts get involuntarily funny. Katharina Loesche talks to translation expert Chris Dammann



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