# English translations with English that is obscure in English?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** cartoons-animation\
**Created:** [April 15, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-translations-with-english-that-is-obscure-in-english/1017088 "2025-04-15T23:56:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-translations-with-english-that-is-obscure-in-english/1017088/21 "2025-04-23T12:47:14Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> I have a set of the three volume edition that I bought at a flea market (I’m sure for under $10) in the early 1990s. I started reading it but didn’t go more than a couple of hundred pages, not because I had anything against it but because there were other things to do with my time, I sat it aside for later, and suddenly 30 years passed.

I have two complete antique editions (well, one of them is missing one volume) of the entire 18 volume set. I know that the original owner(s) never read the whole thing, because a lot of the pages had never been cut.

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