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Laughing in all the wrong places

Andy Warren-RothlinAndy Warren-Rothlin · Aug 21, 2024, 10:36 AM · Last modified: Sep 28, 2026, 11:39 AM
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The Nuremberg trials involved great advances in interpreting methodology and technology. But this image shows a translation error provoking an appalling moment of levity in the midst of horror.

Surely one of the worst things a translator can do is to cause people to laugh when they should be crying!

What other cases of this have you encountered in Bible translation?

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