New Wolfe story online (spoilers for "Copperhead")

William Ansley · 05 May 2001, 23:40 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: William Ansley <wansley at warwick.net>
Subject: (urth) Re:  (whorl) New Wolfe story online (spoilers for "Copperhead")
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 23:40:38
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First of all this message should really be in the Urth list. I am=20
cross posting it in the hope that anyone who replies will just reply=20
to Urth.

At 10:01 PM -0500 5/4/01, Endymion9 wrote:
>David DiGiacomo wrote:
>  >>http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/wolfe/wolf=
e1.h
>tml
>>
>>Wow, I hated this story.  It had all my least favorite Lupine elements:
>>phonetic dialect, misogyny, Christianity, and an incomprehensible ending.
>>
>>Did anyone like it?
>
>I liked it.  Didn't understand the last paragraph but everything else seem=
ed
>fairly straight forward.  At least I could figure out the phonetic dialect
>this time.  Many times I didn't know what Pig was saying.
>
>Dennis/Endy

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"Vhas a groose." She turned, and her eyes were the color of heaven,=20
and she was the loveliest woman the new President had ever seen.=20
"Nawt lak 'ou. Aw zay, 'ou vhill nawt neffer grawnt offer mee agan."=20
She shrugged. "Dhoss bhoyes, de vhun keels de odder. Aw douh=20
nawthing."
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I could manage to work out what Jane Doe was saying until the last=20
(presumably) crucial paragraph of her dialog (quoted above). Perhaps=20
you could elucidate? I think I got most of it, actually. Here's my=20
"translation":

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"Vhas a groose."
"Was a [?]"

"Nawt lak 'ou. Aw zay, 'ou vhill nawt neffer grawnt offer mee agan."
"Not like you. I say, you will not never[?] grunt[?] over me again."

"Dhoss bhoyes, de vhun keels de odder. Aw douh nawthing."
"Those boys, the one kills the other. I do nothing."
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So, what is "groose"? What about "neffer" and "grawnt"?

I (and Spectacled Bear) await your reply.

--=20
William Ansley


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