Bush Vet Translation

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 2 06:38:09 CDT 2003


Maria, 

Thanks for the translation. 

You wrote:  



The spanish translation goes this way: "[Zoyd] se dirigía a una pequeña
granja en la carretera del arroyo, donde tenía un negociete marginal de
venta de cangrejos de río a medias con un veterano de la jungla y su
familia"  (Note that the words "negociete marginal" -marginal
pseudo-business-, reinforces the idea of the socially marginal means of
living of RC).

I still can't imagine **anyone** reading this as implying that RC is a
Vietnam Veteran.



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