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Now don't say I never gave you anything.
Second up, I have just actually mapped out the remainder of my year, so as to see where the holes are. The holes are...nowhere. I'm booked. Like, until December. And that doesn't count the various things I need to be working on, since they're not so much "events" as they are "endemic conditions." You know, like mono, rather than strep throat. So if I turn down an invitation to come out and be social, it's nothing personal, it's just that I can't afford to catch anything else until I've received some mental medical care, and maybe a nice, long nap.
Third up, I should have the ARCs for An Artificial Night any day now, at which point it will once again be time for our summer giveaways. Get your thinking caps on; I want to have truly awesome contests this time, earth-shaking, world-shattering contests. Or, y'know, at least contests that don't bore me. You know, whichever way turns out to work for folks. Let me know if you have suggestions.
Fourth up, I am most of the way through the Sparrow Hill Road story for August, which may need a different title, since it's turned out to be rather more...antic...than was originally expected (it's currently called "Dead Man's Curve"). This seems to be the obligate humorous episode before things get really, really unpleasant, moving up to the December season finale, "Last Kiss," wherein everything becomes, well. Unpleasant for Rose and company. I've got a little time to work it out before things get really urgent.
Fifth up, today I get to go to my favorite bakery with a camera and a Flip video, where I will thoroughly document the process of Jennifer (the owner) making awesome, awesome brain cupcakes. I then get to walk away with the cupcakes. My life is awesome sometimes.
Sixth up, a request: if you speak any language other than English fluently enough to translate, please reply to this post with the following sentences in whatever languages you can, identifying them clearly:
"The dead are rising/walking! Run for your life!"
"I have been infected. Please shoot me."
"I am not infected. Please do not shoot me."
Thank you!
June 8 2010, 19:58:30 UTC 7 years ago
He sido inficionado. Disparame, por favor.
No estoy inficionado. No me dispara, por favor.
I'm pretty sure these are correct for Spanish.
June 8 2010, 23:07:54 UTC 7 years ago
¡Los muertos se estan levantando/caminando! ¡Corre por tu vida!
He sido infectado, Por favor, disparame.
No estoy infectado. Por favor, no me dispare.
At least that is how I would say it, being from Argentina and all that :)
I love your books by the way!! Hope to meet you when you are coming to San Diego for Comicon... you and Tanya Huff, that is :)
P.D. Just signed on livejournal so I could post :)
June 8 2010, 23:09:49 UTC 7 years ago
If the narrator was male, the above one is correct, if female this is how it should be written:
¡Los muertos se estan levantando/caminando! ¡Corre por tu vida!
He sido infectada, Por favor, disparame.
No estoy infectada. Por favor, no me dispare.
June 8 2010, 23:13:59 UTC 7 years ago
I suppose "caminar" implies more of a strolling sort of meaning, yes?
I also suggested "huir" over "correr" because anyone running from the infected would be fleeing and not just running for the hell of it.
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June 8 2010, 23:24:25 UTC 7 years ago
What I'm saying is that you are totally right, "infectar" is the most correct verb to use. Thank you for helping me to clarify that; I really didn't know.
June 8 2010, 23:30:53 UTC 7 years ago
I hear you. I don't think inficionar it's actually a spanish word. Huir, though, it's a good choice there, you can go either way... I would go with correr because it's a little bit more informal but both are good :)
My bad, I was going to add something, thought about it, and click the X thinking it was to delete what I was writing rather than what I wrote :)
June 8 2010, 23:32:08 UTC 7 years ago
June 14 2010, 17:40:59 UTC 7 years ago