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Joker_vDtoday at 4:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

Hey, it's not that easy to chose between "водяной баран" and "гидравлический таран", you know.

My favourite example of troubled blind translation is still "naked conductor runs under the carriage".


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fc417fc802today at 5:25 PM

Nice double entendre but it seems to be a perfectly valid description of electrical wiring in a machine? What was the original intent?

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JustARandomGuytoday at 5:37 PM

What was "naked conductor runs under the carriage" supposed to be originally? Open driveshaft? Differential?

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