This is why it is important to have all your translations edited by a second translator:

Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.

-Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"

Russell Hoban

"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."

Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish author and playwright

"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion.  Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said.  This matters above everything."

Confucius

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