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Thread poster: Phil Hand
Phil Hand
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China
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Chinese to English
May 7, 2014

I enjoyed this one today.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/620235?uid=3737800&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103739691531
This is the familiar technique of the student who looks words up in a dictionary, decides upon a meaning and plugs the translation he has decided upon willy nilly into an English sentence.
 


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