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.. [XVIII,3] is very amusing, but it contains a number of mistranslated Spanish idioms.
None are sequels, but 5, 7, and 10 are actual movies, although I may have mistranslated 5.
Surely, this man could not have mistranslated Radix malorum est cupiditas as Money is the root of all evil!
St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.