swish, woosh, swoosh – the hunt for suitable words feels like diving through comic strips.

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Tales from the translator's cave:

Context: A character has been stabbed and is saying his dying words.

Sentence should read: It is to late. (Es ist zu spät.)
Sentence reads: You eat too late.

Thank you for the advice, DeepL.

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Me after writing All I Want For Christmas Is A Gargoyle: I promise, no more multi-lingual books. I'll stick to English.

All I Want For Christmas Is A Cryptid: *tosses in Spanish*

All I Want For Christmas Is A Mermaid: *tosses in Cajun and French*

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In Finnish, you don’t say you "have a cat." You have to say "with me is a cat." The Finns understand cats. #funwithlanguage

Hated mushrooms as a kid, but they've grown on me. #FunWithLanguage

Yes, I think squires should have a "sword-launch" when they're dubbed, too. Makes the ceremony much more fun.

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Litotes

/lī-tō′tēz/
noun
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. More at Wordnik