AtD translation: read us off your list of complaints

[David Morris]

A simpler explanation would be "to scratch us off your list of complaints."

On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:54 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> To "read us off your list of complaints," means to resolve the complaints
> by destroying "wrecking," eliminating, the source/cause of the complaints:
> revenge justice.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:25 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> P481.5   “You do your best,” she cried out at her mother, “to wreck us,
>> and
>> then you run away, out of reach, behind the wall of death.”
>>        “You want to come out after us, out there beside the old dark
>> river,
>> find us, read us off your list of complaints? Somebody sooner or later’ll
>> be happy enough to help you do that. Swear, Lake, you’ve gone sour in your
>> old age.”
>>        Lake woke up, but so slowly it seemed for a while that Mayva was
>> really there in the room.
>>
>> What does "read us off" mean here?
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