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Last week, I was drafting an email to a potential partner in Germany and decided to use a translation tool to make the process easier. Unfortunately, that choice backfired spectacularly! The translated message was so incoherent that my recipient couldn’t grasp my intent at all. I ended up having to send a follow-up email to clarify the situation, but the initial impression had already been affected. It’s astonishing how much confusion a bad translation can cause—definitely a valuable lesson learned!