Quote: translation can't distinguish between wrong translations and speakers with weird beliefs

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Let someone say (and now discourse is direct), … that there is a hippopotamus in the refrigerator? … being touched. It has a pleasant taste, at … some finite amount of such talk we slip … there was a hippopotamus in the refrigerator. … it is just that beyond a point there … we do but has more or less weird … [viz. as "hippopotamus" instead of "orange"].   Google-1   Google-2

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