"A-HA! Oh, that's good. That's something. I just said, in that language I don't know how to speak... well, what you just said, but in a different language from my own. So, the translation here... it doesn't preserve those differences. But... it could have had something to do with how I did know the meaning of those words. I wonder if..."
He spins around.
"Bar, could I borrow a... one of those guidebooks that translate phrases into English for tourists, like... let's say Russian, I don't know a word of Russian, a Russian to English pocket dictionary?"
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"A-HA! Oh, that's good. That's something. I just said, in that language I don't know how to speak... well, what you just said, but in a different language from my own. So, the translation here... it doesn't preserve those differences. But... it could have had something to do with how I did know the meaning of those words. I wonder if..."
He spins around.
"Bar, could I borrow a... one of those guidebooks that translate phrases into English for tourists, like... let's say Russian, I don't know a word of Russian, a Russian to English pocket dictionary?"