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@[email protected] @[email protected] well, it's not as crazy as everyone else's pranks but it was still funny to me when I was 12
I had Bashqort classes in school as a kid, but we weren't actually taught the language, it was just a required-by-law-but-nobody-cares class (which is really sad, I think). we just spent time looking for words in the dictionary or reading texts nobody understood aloud
one day we were given some adjective-noun pairs to translate with the dictionary, and a classmate was too busy playing a game on his phone to write it down, so he asked me. the pairs were quite generic, something like "beautiful flower" but I decided to have a little fun and told him the pairs were "dead child", "cold-blooded murder" etc. I was really obsessed with death and murders as a kid
unfortunately, he asked the teacher if she actually asked us to translate this and she was a bit shocked :neofox_laugh_sweat:
@wonderfox_dev Not bad, if lil bit morbid.
I *thought* to use mistranslations some time, but nah.
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