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Thanks, Jansy -- will you? Or at least keep making suggestions?
Happy New Year!
Dmitri
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM, NABOKV-L <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:NABOKV-L@holycross.edu"
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tickly-looking little holes bored in the squares.�
<SPAN lang=PT-BR>On page 85 of the Brasilian translation I read:� OS
BURAQUINHOS QUE PARECIAM CARRAPATOS NAS �CASAS.
<SPAN lang=PT-BR>�
In this version into Portuguese there are no more squirming� orifices
ready for penetration by pin-sized pawns or larger� noblemen.
Ticks (carrapatos), those horrible black things often met in rural
settings inhabit the �ticklish-looking holes� �
�
How about that for a translation???� I simply cannot get over this
amusing, but strangely un-nabokovian but not strictly incorrect, image.
Black ticks inside their little houses on the chess-board�
Who will come to rescue our Laura?
Jansy Mello
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Happy New Year!
Dmitri
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM, NABOKV-L <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:NABOKV-L@holycross.edu"
target=_blank>NABOKV-L@holycross.edu> wrote:
tickly-looking little holes bored in the squares.�
<SPAN lang=PT-BR>On page 85 of the Brasilian translation I read:� OS
BURAQUINHOS QUE PARECIAM CARRAPATOS NAS �CASAS.
<SPAN lang=PT-BR>�
In this version into Portuguese there are no more squirming� orifices
ready for penetration by pin-sized pawns or larger� noblemen.
Ticks (carrapatos), those horrible black things often met in rural
settings inhabit the �ticklish-looking holes� �
�
How about that for a translation???� I simply cannot get over this
amusing, but strangely un-nabokovian but not strictly incorrect, image.
Black ticks inside their little houses on the chess-board�
Who will come to rescue our Laura?
Jansy Mello
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