As a dentist, I like to use Google Translate when I have a patient in the chair whose language I don’t speak. This also applies to the treatment of a woman from Ukraine with a toothache. I use Google Translate, albeit a Ukrainian variant. When I want to check whether it is working properly after the anesthetic has been put on, she shows me her phone. I read: “When you blow it still feels sensual.”
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A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper of November 7, 2022