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Old 8th January 2012, 09:11 PM   #1
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Scabbard is brown thick leather, covered with a thin skin.

I don't mean to derail but I am somewhat disturbed by the above sentence... Perhaps something was lost in translation?

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Old 8th January 2012, 09:34 PM   #2
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Stan, that's a literal translation from German for scabbard, it's happened to me as well using Google translate.
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Old 8th January 2012, 11:09 PM   #3
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I don't mean to derail but I am somewhat disturbed by the above sentence... Perhaps something was lost in translation?
It recalls a certain faulty phrasebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYH0pBZdaes

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