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[arethinn]

People call us romantics, mystics, dreamers, hippies, aliens, but we call ourselves elves. And we are.
--Nikolay Lyapanenko, The Elves from Ancient Times to Our Days

Comments

[andros_b]

Oooh.

[arethinn]

I haven't got very far in the book yet (I brought it to PCOn, dunno if you got a look at it among the others at the meetup) but it's been okay so far, although his English is a little odd in places. For example, when talking about dvergar, in a translated quote he used the words "dark as resin", which seems to me he meant "pitch", and hilariously, in another quote describing the dress of some of the members of the Tuatha De Danann said that they were wearing "raincoats" of various colors, which I think was supposed to be "cloaks".

[andros_b]

Alas, I did not; I was pretty out of it this year. And yeah, the language sounds a bit off, but about average for a non-native speaker, I suppose.