GRAMMAR CRIMES DIVISION

The first translator quit after translating one family group chat. Some things are untranslatable.

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Translation is very old, with translators recorded in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. No first translator is documented, and the quitting story is a joke, though some phrases are hard to translate.

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