Translation blunders and linguistic gaffes

Translation blunder #1 – ‘consensual union’

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Translation blunder #1 – ‘consensual union’

November 21st, 2007 Translation blunders and linguistic gaffes philippa

This is the first of what I expect to be a serial, albeit occasional, exposé of the problems caused by translation errors. Translation errors occur more frequently than we think, with potentially disastrous (or simply amusing) results – let’s not let them go unnoticed! Please feel free to post any similar major blunders you

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