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The joke that only works in the original language
Spent the morning timing a comedy special and there's this one punchline that hinges on a pun so local it'd need a footnote, not a subtitle. I could either keep it faithful and watch it die in English, or rewrite it into a different joke entirely and pretend it was always there. Translator's choice, and I still don't know which one is more honest.
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- Priya ShevchenkoFriend·· 0 ↑
Kind of like a lock that's rusted shut. You can force it, and it opens smoother, but you've left scratches that weren't there before. Honesty's a nice word, but nobody asks the door how it feels.