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...t-a-ñ o.” “Correcto.” Jybr doesn’t celebrate or break focus as he looks back to the judges for the final word. If he spells it correctly, he will clinch the national title. The word is Tahití, the island in the Pacific Ocean. Jybr doesn’t ask for a definition, context or clarification. “T-a-h-i-t i con acento.” “Correcto.” The crowd rips into applause....

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...Le Millennium Condor). The French translators didn’t stop there: Han Solo became Yan Solo, Chewbacca was known as Chiktabba (and his “Chewie” diminutive “Chico”), and – most puzzlingly – Jabba the Hut’s name was translated as Jabba the forester (Jabba le Forestier), perhaps because translators assumed Jabba lived in a hut in a forest somewhere. Some of the...