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Untranslatable Bios #

I’m lonely. Like everyone-ish else. Naturally, I’m on Bumble. (Because Tinder is a rape-friendly lure trap.) When work calls get boring I inevitably start swiping (mostly left 😢)

There are lots of tourists in Armenia in the summer. From all over the world really. Speaking a stupefying range of languages. With bios and prompt answers in these numerous languages. Not necessarily discernible to me due to my language learning stagnation.

So there’s this profile of a pretty German girl. With bio and prompts in (an undeniably beautiful) German. Speaking English, she made the decision to use her mother tongue for the bio. A totally valid choice.

So I want to know the story she tells with her profile:

Select her bio,

copy it,

paste into a translator,

look up the exact meaning of some mistranslated German word,

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