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Old April 4th, 2006
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Originally Posted by stief
more context would help out a translation)
I understood--but you wanted more than a quick googled translation.

For that a translator would need more of the context.

"Oh" would translate differently depending on tone. Tone needs the rest of the "poem"

"Gee, what pretty eyes" is different that "Oho! You see everything"
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