Re: OT: reality (wasRe: Atlantean) & Re: Some questions
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 12, 2004, 23:43 |
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:09:11PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Original line from _The Warrior's Apprentice_ by Lois McMaster Bujold:
> "Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
> English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
> lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."
Oh, that's terrible. Did that line actually appear in the Russian
translation?? I think Russian is even supposed to be one of the
languages spoken on Barrayar . . .
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