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Robobvious t1_j1mprdp wrote

Reply to comment by fbluntson in I just read Stephen King's "Carrie". I have a Doubt by Varun_shiroyasha

I think just the most direct translation, fainting in French would be falling into apples. Where some cultures have a specific word for something others might have a phrase so direct translations don’t work out quite the way people think they will.

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FartyMcGee__ t1_j1oibd7 wrote

Are you pulling my leg?

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Robobvious t1_j1ozoh8 wrote

I read it on reddit yesterday so it may not be true but I have no real reason to believe they were lying at that instant.

…wait, is that a joke? Because pulling my leg wouldn’t translate well to other languages? If so that’s clever.

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