VL-IV p258 Mexico, little wordplay?

János Székely miksaapja at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 02:32:50 CST 2009


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2009/3/1 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
> Maybe a cross-lingual pun in the back of the narrator's mind (as in
> "Gottfried") but he simply says it will rain in Spanish.
>
> Janos
> 2009/2/28 Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>:
>> "As the young women were pigging out, bottles of beer, rice and beans,
>> mangoes, and pineapple slices with powdered cinnamon also showed up,
>> until, just about the time Frenesi was going "Whoo-wee!" and reaching
>> in her bag for a pack of Kools, the owner came out and started putting
>> plastic sheets over the other tables. "A llover,"  he advised,
>> indicating the sky."
>>
>> a llover = all over?
>>
>> those pineapple slices with the powdered cinnamon sound good...
>>
>> --
>>  - "He's a king mixer.  He hates group unity, so he gets everyone at
>> it." - Paul, about his grandfather
>>
>




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