…and another one
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Two tags in a row. That’s a bad sign for a blog… it screams “they don’t have anything to write about!”. But I do. About 4 books. But I also have a lot to write at work, which is keeping me from blogging here.
So this is a tag from Larry again. And it’s that obnoxiuos one that’s been traveling the Romanian blogosphere too (sorry :P). But I felt that my version was a bit twisted so I had to post.
What you get when you tag a foreigner is… you guessed it… foreign books! Even more so since I am at my boyfriend’s place, who has more Romanian than English books (and the English shelf is furthest away from where I am sitting now). So, I am supposed to grab the nearest book and turn to page 123. Write down the fifth sentence, post it, and then tag 5 others to do this.
- Nu-mi mai pot permite sa pierd timpul, a zis, coborand din camioneta.
And now the short lesson in Romanian :P Dialogues always start with a “-”, not inverted commas, and the sentence means “I can’t afford to waste time, she said, getting off the truck.”
It’s from Triceratops Summer by Michael Swanwick, in one of the Year’s Best anthologies by Gardner Dozois. And I’m sorry to say that the book wasn’t near the bed because I was reading it, but because I used it as a laptop stand (it overheats and I have to prop it up in order to properly ventilate).
June 20th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Glad to see that you took the tagging well. And strange how once I read 1-2 words of your quote in English, the rest came to me. Just altered endings to the root words and doubtless a few pronunciation shifts, but still…
June 20th, 2008 at 8:55 am
It’s the Spanish :P It doesn’t have the same accent, but most of the words up there are very similar.