Timber framing/Fachwerk
am 19.03.2006 von Transblawg
It’s very frustrating when you’re translating a long text and you realize it has hundreds of references to timber framing and you don’t know enough to handle it fluently.
But things could be worse.
“It’s frustrating if you’re a microbe that’s been wandering …
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