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A writer in the Herald travel section, recently mentioned unnecessary translations in phrasebooks, such as ‘Help!’” notes Geoff Gilligan of Coogee. “One of the most needless I can recall was from a Greek phrasebook. In the chapter, ‘At The Hairdressers’ was, ‘The water is too hot, you are scalding me.’ That said, I don’t know if it can match, ‘My postilion has been struck by lightning’.”
“The things one sees,” muses Paul Koff of Glenhaven. “I was taking a morning stroll when I spied a young lady jogging towards…
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