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I found French game designer Bruno Faidutti's comments on rule translations to be a good, short read. http://www.faidutti.com/index.php

For some reason this comment struck me as interesting: French translations are often mediocre, full of meaning and grammar mistakes, while English translations of German games are usually accurate.

Wonder why? I don't know enough to form an opinion myself. I don't speak French and my readers will know that I only have the most basic grasp of written English. I was fairly fluent in practical German years ago, but not fluent enough to decipher nuance in a rule-set.