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Quilting Point

Why Theory

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What Does the Button Do on the Chair?

The button on a chair focuses your attention somewhere if you're looking at it. It also stops the batting from spilling out, which is called quilting point in french. The word poin de capitan was used to describe this very same phenomeno in french. I think translation is a realy great example of how things don't translate perfectly because of a whole raft of linguistic and cultural reasons.

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