1. You can do one of two things. You can create a new language in admin and this will replicate the current phrases and allow you to edit them in admin panel.
Or you can edit phrases.php call it say german.php and edit the queries in there adding a new language and edit the phrases and release it here and of course run it on your site as well.
The first translation is the one you translate. The second is the original which gets untouched
2. Do you have an example should view fine have you tried using the html code?
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