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George M. Middius[_2_] George M. Middius[_2_] is offline
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Default restauranteur blames Groupon for failure of his business

spamtrap1888 wrote:

> > > Is there a place on earth where one can make a fraud like that without any
> > > risk of legal ritortions? I don't know it.

> >
> > Depends. What are ritortions?

>
> retaliation


Nope, that's wrong in context. Probably repercussions, or maybe
sanctions (American meaning).

> While you're generally safe anglicizing Latinate words when
> translating from Romance languages to English, every once in a while
> you come across a word that doesn't have an exact counterpart. Here,
> ritorsione.


Grazie.