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James McVay
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Mar 14, 2015

… Lubricated by Google Translate. Boy gets girl, boy (almost) loses girl, boy gets girl back.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/love-in-translation/2015/03/13/759964a2-c773-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1
 
Andrea Jarmuschewski
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Fun! Mar 15, 2015

That was fun to read, thank you for sharing
 
Georgie Scott
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Brilliant Mar 16, 2015

I guffawed indeed. Cheers
 
Robert Rietvelt
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Sweet! Mar 16, 2015



 
DS Trans
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My apartment is a whorehouse! Mar 17, 2015

Hilarious. Thanks for posting.
 
Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
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Ghana
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Japanese to English
More like a lust story Mar 17, 2015

"I was no prude, as a sexually active single gal. But as a standing policy, I did not sleep with strangers. I slept with Nico that night because, thanks to those Google-assisted communications, he didn’t feel like one."


The woman is an idiot. Don't blame Google for your lack of morals.

[Edited at 2015-03-17 15:47 GMT]
 


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