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This puts him peculiarly at the mercy of his transliterator, who has a positive genius for choosing the wrong word and depriving any comment of its subtlety, any well-made phrase of its distinction.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir