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  • Tuesday, October 7, 2008 03:33 PM

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    Um...well, I might have got that wrong, btw. I'm sure there was nothing in the original translation request about tires or frogs.

    But hey, they've got over 10,000 fucking intransitive verbs! And not a single word for "doggone".

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