The soup with character incident

At 2 a.m., working through a Kraków memoir, my CAT tool blithely offered “The soup has character” for a plain Polish “It’s salty,” and I nearly kept it because it sang. What’s your most beguilingly wrong suggestion that almost seduced its way into the draft before cultural sense tugged you back?

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German “hat’s in sich” once gave me “the sauce has it in itself,” and I almost kept the Zen. I added a QA regex to flag “character/has it in itself” within five words of food — except wine or cheese — and a tiny “do-not-poeticize” glossary; do you keep a danger-words list?

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