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    Rough Translation
    Rough Translation
    Rough Translation
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    Rough Translation

    By Jean M. Janis and C. L. Hunter

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Rough Translation - Jean M. Janis

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      Title: Rough Translation

      Author: Jean M. Janis

      Illustrator: Hunter

      Release Date: April 14, 2010 [EBook #31980]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROUGH TRANSLATION ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction December 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Rough Translation

      By JEAN M. JANIS

      Illustrated by Hunter

      Don't be ashamed if you can't blikkel any more. It's because you couldn't help framishing.

      hurgub, said the tape recorder. Just like I told you before, Dr. Blair, it's krandoor, so don't expect to vrillipax, because they just won't stand for any. They'd sooner framish."

      Framish? Jonathan heard his own voice played back by the recorder, tinny and slightly nasal. What is that, Mr. Easton?

      "You know. Like when you guttip. Carooms get awfully bevvergrit. Why, I saw one actually—"

      Let's go back a little, shall we? Jonathan suggested. What does shurgub mean?

      There was a pause while the machine hummed and the recorder tape whirred. Jonathan remembered the look on Easton's face when he had asked him that. Easton had pulled away slightly, mouth open, eyes hurt.

      "Why—why, I told you! he had shouted. Weeks ago! What's the matter? Don't you blikkel English?"

      Jonathan Blair reached out and snapped the switch on the machine. Putting his head in his hands, he stared down at the top of his desk.

      You learned Navajo in six months, he reminded himself fiercely.

      You are a highly skilled linguist. What's the matter? Don't you blikkel English?

      e groaned and started searching through his briefcase for the reports from Psych. Easton must be insane. He must! Ramirez says it's no language. Stoughton says it's no language. And I, Jonathan thought savagely, say it's no language.

      But—

      Margery tiptoed into the study with a tray.

      But Psych, he continued aloud to her, "Psych says it must be a language

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