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• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• There is a general idea that a translation always fails to preserve some of the qualities that distinguish the original work .
  i.e., that 'something always gets lost in translation....
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  Aw, no. Marge is going to say something. etc. Marge...