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[Email] 8/15 email from Dana ...answers about her chinese

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raveneyes
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[Email] 8/15 email from Dana ...answers about her chinese

i'd love to type more, but my gf spilled water all oVer my keyboard last night, half my keys are dead so i'm copy/pasting most of this. will write properly after getting a new board later in the day. also will be replying to her as i got asked a direct question.

~b

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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:01:45 -0700
From: Dana Awbrey <danatwing@gmail.com>
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her reply
Hi Raveneyes,
Yes! I saw the SP's secret... but what do you make of it?
and *blush* yeah after being over here a couple of weeks I'm getting
the feeling that my Mandarin's a bit wonky. I was trying to say:
I'm lost.
Wo mi-lu le
and
I'm sorry.
Dui-bu-qi.
Two phrases, incidentally, which I've had plenty of opportunity to
practice over here, lol. Usually the last one is paired with "Wo bu
dong". (I don't understand!) Oh well. That seems to be a recurring
theme these days for me... thanks for your help trying to me it less
so.
-d.

my mail to her...
From: Raveneyes <raveneyes@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:50:18 -0500
Subject: sleeping princess..
To: danatwingSPLATgmail.com

dear dana,

I've emailed you before without result, but I feel a need to continue
to, despite the fact that you've more then likely gotten the
information that I'm going to impart, it's the thought that counts eh?

the sleeping princess(henceforth sp) has sent out another email,
rather informative..I'll copy and paste it at the end of this email,
she's glad you're back, and did release her "secret", perhaps she
emailed you as well? that isnt something I thought of.

I'll ask you again since I didn't get a reply last time, and hope to
get one this time..the chinese at the end of your last voice mail msg,
was rather easy to be mistranslated..to say the least. could you
perhaps tell us what you were trying to say, in your own words?

anyway, on with the story, have fun in asia, I wish I was there. drink
a few cokes for me..they taste much better there ^_^

~b

(email is below)

I can make my own words now. Watch:

It's rather lonely in the Castle.

There's clouds of fireflies around the Queen, but most of the time
where I am it's dark, and empty. The hallways are empty and they echo,
cho, cho. Sometimes the Queen staggers past, her head buzzing and
crawling, with the Pious Flea whispering in her ear. Used to be, the
only other thing you heard in the corridors at night were the Widow's
thin legs, click clack click clack like knitting needles chattering
across the stone floor. Course she's not around anymore. Can't say I
miss her much.

Didn't stay quiet for long, though. Now the Queen is trying to build a
voice. Strange, sad, broken thing; just hearing it makes me feel
frightened and lonely.

I was surprised when the Queen sent her away, but Her Majesty DOES
have a temper, and the Widow had been making a lot of mistakes. I was
hiding behind the throne during their last argument. For days the
Queen has been ordering her to build the most extraordinary number of
little roads out from the castle. Turns out she was very particular
about where she wanted them to go: more particular than the Widow
understood. Widow hears, "Build a road," she just starts shoveling.
Hard-working old biddy, the Widow, but not the sharpest pin in the
cushion. She kept getting into fights with the Flea, when she could
SEE him riding around up there on the Queen's shoulder, proud as a
lord. The last time they quarreled, the Queen had just discovered the
Widow had built one path mindlessly straight INTO THE SEA. This is
what I mean about an Arachnid of Very Little Brain.

Usually I am a pretty good hider, but I made a terrible pig-snorty
kind of laugh when I heard about the underwater road, and I think they
would have caught me, if the Queen hadn't been busy breaking up the
Widow at just that moment.

Anyway, I get the feeling the Queen is very grumpy. She has totally
taken over the road-making business; I'm sure the paths will be better
now. She's not always a lot of fun, the Queen (and quite mad, of
course) but she does get things done.

Sometimes I sneak away to my very own secret garden, and pretend I am
waiting for Dickon to come and teach me how to speak to the animals. I
feel I should be getting stout and rosy-cheeked if only I could go out
and play on a moor somewhere: but I never get outside. Just say in
here, in here, in here�.

Sometimes, to cheer myself up, I tell myself stories. In these
stories, I am always the hero, Gretel or Lambkin or Gerda. I like
stories where the girl takes care of things.

I think�

I think that's part of the reason I wanted Dana to come back. It's
easier to be brave when you're looking out for someone else.

So now I feel better! You lovely people brought Dana back! I promised
you that if you did, I would show you a page I snuck from the Queen's
diary, so here it is!

McKaskill, I said. Got a moment?

Sure, Operator!

They call me the Operator because, you know, I work the system to take
care of my crew.

McKaskill was a nice kid, family from Durban, on the outer colony
world of Biko, which had been glassed years ago. But he'd grown up in
refugee apartments in the inner colonies and he had the look of
someone who spent his childhood in concrete places under artificial
lights.

Weedy.

He was doing a check in the tool crib now. The go-to kid for tools and
parts. The stacks of shelves were his little kingdom, probably more
his own than anything he'd had growing up. I liked him a lot.

McKaskill, I said, I was checking the slipstream packets. I do that
before I send them out. You knew that, right?

His eyes went to the grating at his feet and he got all casual inner
city don't screw with me, because he knew I was onto him.

Somebody has been talking to you, I said. And now you're sending him a
message back.

So?

I sighed. McKaskill, bad people are putting bad thoughts in your head.

He tried to get righteous. Op, that thing�whatever it is, in the hold.
They're keeping big-time wraps on it. You know that. I heard the
Captain. The way she's talking, they're not gonna let people look at,
it's goin' to a basement in ONI. A sub sub sub basement. They can't
just take something that big and�shove it away somewhere.

McKaskill, I said, sending messages off to people without clearance,
you know, that could be construed as treason.

Op! Melissa! I didn't mean�

And we're at war, crewman. Which makes treason a capital offense.

His eyes got wide. But-but-but you got it, he said, it didn't go nowhere.

You're my crew, and no one is going to touch my crew without going
through me. I've got your back, McKaskill. But you're going to have to
tell me about this contact.

Some old guy. You know, bad taste in clothes. But he was cleared to
come aboard, so he has to be Intel.

You know his name?

Probably not his real one.

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:09 pm

raveneyes
Guest

ps:please post to wiki as i cant atm.

~b

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:13 pm

Tenosis
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Quote:

the Queen had just discovered the
Widow had built one path mindlessly straight INTO THE SEA.

That HAS to be referring to the GPS coordinate that was found to point to a spot in the Pacific Ocean!

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:34 am

Kilroy
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Joined: 13 Aug 2004
Posts: 15
Location: Denmark

Tenosis wrote:

Quote:

the Queen had just discovered the
Widow had built one path mindlessly straight INTO THE SEA.

That HAS to be referring to the GPS coordinate that was found to point to a spot in the Pacific Ocean!

Yes, but it was changed imidiatly (spelling Rolling Eyes

) after, so we've figured that it was a mistake.

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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:34 am

Doppelganger-X4
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Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 6
Location: Oberlin, OH

Just confirming that her Chinese is correct in this email. No intentional mistranslation code, it seems. :]

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:40 pm

leova
Guest

Kilroy wrote:

Tenosis wrote:

Quote:

the Queen had just discovered the
Widow had built one path mindlessly straight INTO THE SEA.

That HAS to be referring to the GPS coordinate that was found to point to a spot in the Pacific Ocean!

Yes, but it was changed imidiatly (spelling Rolling Eyes

) after, so we've figured that it was a mistake.

if it was a mistake, why would the make a "dialogue" about it after the fact? or if they made the dialog before it, then it wouldnt be a mistake, as they had preplanned it... im sure this has some sort of relevance, i just have no idea what that is right now Confused

-Leova
"In my defence, my competition was a potato."

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:54 pm

sherpa
Unfettered

Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 338
Location: cam.ac.uk

leova wrote:

if it was a mistake, why would the make a "dialogue" about it after the fact?

As a nice hat-tip to the players for spotting it?

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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:17 pm

GWing_02
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Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 144
Location: Seattle, WA

Yes, the spelling on the Chinese is correct.
I believe it probably was pre-planned... the list changed so drastically after the "mistake" was caught and the dialogue was sent. But what about the TWO NEW ONES IN THE SEA?!?!?!?! Shocked

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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:44 pm

sherpa
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 338
Location: cam.ac.uk

They got changed. Keep up! Wink

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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:59 pm

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