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		taejo on Jan 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to Yo... BTW, egal doesn't mean equal in German (though it's borrowed from French égal, which does). It means "irrelevant", "all the same", "unimportant".

weinzierl on Jan 15, 2015 | [–]

That's true.

"[das] ist mir gleich" would literally be '[it] is equal for me'). It means the same ("don't care") and is perfectly idiomatic German as well.

schoen on Jan 15, 2015 | [–]

Good point, sorry for the mistake.

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