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“...all the pools are going batshit like you wouldn't believe… Batshit... It's a technical term... Fleidermausscheisse, okay?" Fleidermausscheisse? Kelly silently mouthed the word, and as silently clapped her hands. With a dictionary and patience, she could read scientific German. Thanks to…” quote by Harry Turtledove
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““...all the pools are going batshit like you wouldn't believe… Batshit... It's a technical term... Fleidermausscheisse, okay?" Fleidermausscheisse? Kelly silently mouthed the word, and as silently clapped her hands. With a dictionary and patience, she could read scientific German. Thanks to fragments of Yiddish from her folks, she could make a better--not good, but better--stab at speaking it than most of her anglophone peers. But she knew she never would have come up with that particular terminus technicus in a million months of Sundays.””

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