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It gets even more amazing when [[Prophecies Rhyme All the Time|ancient spells and prophecies rhyme]] or are puns in English.
For a good real-world demonstration, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20070701111927/http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/ Lost In Translation].
An exception occasionally pops up when the form of a word in another language (usually with declensions, like Latin) reveals information such as number or gender that would require additional words in English, allowing the translation to be more precise than one would expect.
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