And has this guy never seen a chorse before?

(Okay, I got nothing after that one. Based on my limited knowledge of French, this is appears to be a terrible translation issue- tree = arbre, horse = cheval, house = maison.)

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[–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

That book is a translation nightmare...

Tree = árvore

Horse = cavalo

Vaca = cow

There are a lot more. Those are English to Portuguese translations and there are more. I'd risk the original language of the book is heavily Latin based.

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  • Not sure if it's originally Portuguese, Spanish, or French but yeah, definitely seems like it was originally some romantic language originally and they just translated it one to one to English without considering the context.

    For example in Spanish, E for Estrella (star) makes sense.

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