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Dozer · 2019-01-01 09:07

Hello, Lainos.
I've got a problem. For the next 12hrs I'll be able to only read
something and I can't choose the language of the book I'm gonna
read(it's originally in German). I'm bilingual (English and Russian).
What would you do?

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Unnamed · 2019-01-01 20:45

What? I mean, what possibly got you in this particular conundrum?

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Joe Bloggs · 2019-01-02 02:00

What the fuarrrk lain. Where you taken hostage by the mafia or what?
>What would you do?
I'd rather not read at all.

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Unidentified · 2019-01-02 12:39

So do you mean that you have to choose a book originally in German,
which exists in both English and Russian translation, to read without
knowing which translation it will be?

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, I guess, or Siddhartha by Herman
Hesse?

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Boris Grishenko · 2019-01-02 16:20

>>2947
why not?

>>2943
just accept your fate. i mean, as long as it's language you
understand... unless you meant you couldn't decide which translation
to read, then i'd go with english (i am biased, though) or flip a
coin.