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arib ([personal profile] arib) wrote2003-12-30 06:00 pm
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The perils of translation...

Aunt Petunia just referred to Dudley as "bubbeleh."
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[identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com 2003-12-30 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you reading in Hebrew or Yiddish?

[identity profile] arib.livejournal.com 2003-12-30 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hebrew, I don't know very much Yiddish at all.

Though the two languages have borrowed from each other pretty heavily.
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