GR translation: sugar faces

[Mike Jing]

As a matter of fact, I have never heard of "Ya reet".  Now that I know it
means "yeah right", but it still doesn't quite solve the translation
problem I have.

And i don't know what they call a retard in Mongolia.  But I am pretty sure
they would call you an asshole instead.

Anyway, anything from you or any of your other alternative identities will
go straight to trash.


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Iris Sirius <irissiriustce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Im pretty sure that Jing you wrote me a personal note I not say anything
> unless it productive. According to you. You never say anything besides
> ttanslation shit so i haveti know your interpretation of the text. But
> thats what youre doing, asking for help. You should listen to the
> alternative voices around here. Im telling you.  Reet pleats?   "Ya reet!
> Prove it!"  You never heard that? Hmm.  what are you in Taiwan, mongollia,
> beijing?
>
> Whats the word for retard there?
>
> On Mar 3, 2013 12:03 AM, "Mike Jing" <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > P254.21   Here Slothrop stages a brilliant Commando raid, along with
> faithful companion Blodgett Waxwing, on Shell Mex House itself—right into
> the heart of the Rocket’s own branch office in London. Mowing down platoons
> of heavy security with his little Sten, kicking aside nubile and screaming
> WRAC secretaries (how else is there to react, even in play?), savagely
> looting files, throwing Molotov cocktails, the Zoot-suit Zanies at last
> crashing into the final sanctum with their trousers up around their
> armpits, smelling of singed hair, spilled blood, to find not Mr. Duncan
> Sandys cowering before their righteousness, nor open window, gypsy flight,
> scattered fortune cards, nor even a test of wills with the great Consortium
> itself—but only a rather dull room, business machines arrayed around the
> walls calmly blinking, files of cards pierced frail as sugar faces, frail
> as the last German walls standing without support after the bombs have been
> and now twisting high above, threatening to fold down out of the sky from
> the force of the wind that has blown the smoke away. . . .
> >
> > What are "sugar faces"?
> >
>
>
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