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"Without knowing the context, I would tentatively agree that your example seems more like a mistranslation."

What does the context matter when the person who made the change, not mistranslation, freely admits to it!

How can you claim to be an authority about these issues when you're not aware of what may be the single worst example of it, and have no interest in investigating this when it's brought to your attention?

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I think this comment reflects a bunch of differences in our perspectives that I don't really feel inclined to spend a lot of time unpacking.

Suffice it to say that in my opinion, context always matters (which also means I'm hesitant to read anything nefarious into a single tweet snipped from a conversation), and I reject the idea that a "change" and a "mistranslation" are categorically different things, rather than points on a continuum. And if you're implying that anyone who has knowledge relevant to this subject must automatically be outraged enough to "investigate", then I disagree with that too.

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