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Dear Charles DeLint,
Please stop fucking up foreign languages. You did it in Svaha and in Forests Of The Heart and it's making me hate your books, which are so generally well-received that it makes me feel like some sort of moron for hating them. Get a native speaker, or someone with a passing knowledge of the language in question, or SOMETHING. I don't remember Spanish worth a damn, but I can still tell you that 'cadejos' are plural, so their complaints on page 323 should read 'infelices', 'no deseados'. Also, 'ugokuna zo' means 'get a move on' only in the NOT sense.
Gwarrrrrrrr.
Sincerely,
Ursula Owen.
Seriously, does he have any non-Earth books that I could actually enjoy? The language and cultural mistakes he make distract me too much from his urban fantasies.
Please stop fucking up foreign languages. You did it in Svaha and in Forests Of The Heart and it's making me hate your books, which are so generally well-received that it makes me feel like some sort of moron for hating them. Get a native speaker, or someone with a passing knowledge of the language in question, or SOMETHING. I don't remember Spanish worth a damn, but I can still tell you that 'cadejos' are plural, so their complaints on page 323 should read 'infelices', 'no deseados'. Also, 'ugokuna zo' means 'get a move on' only in the NOT sense.
Gwarrrrrrrr.
Sincerely,
Ursula Owen.
Seriously, does he have any non-Earth books that I could actually enjoy? The language and cultural mistakes he make distract me too much from his urban fantasies.