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Just a few quick observations:

The formatting is non-existant. That makes me angry. Because I have OCD. Most programmers do.

There's a lot of direct use of DOM traversing, which makes the code rather brittle. (Use a css selector for binding to the DOM - jQuery is the de-facto standard tool here).

Variables are not encoded in the URL. And when it is, it happens on a separate line from where it's used. That's just bad style.

Oh, and what's the point of those declared-but-unused variables (`spanish, german, english`).

And why aren't they in a hashmap?



> That makes me angry. Because I have OCD. Most programmers do.

I assume you mean fake, self-diagnosed OCD, then.


yes, the small, annoying personal neuroses that everyone has, but for some reason we programmers like to wear as a badge of honor.




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