RantWoman has PLENTY else on her buffet of vexations today but is called to an accidental encounter of the Language Geek kind. RantWoman poked into the Russian language Quaker Facebook group Kvakery and observed the following moment of malfunctioning international language machinery:
Bing meets Quakerese, translating fromRussian:
Friends, please, keep me in the light-now we will have a very serious meeting on the future of real estate of our gathering
How RantWoman would translate the status in question; What the Russian says.in idiomatic English Quakerese
Friends, Please hold me in the Light. We are about to have a very difficult meeting about the future of our Meeting's property.
RantWoman would opine about this in Russian except that she is not using her own computer. Besides keyboard setup issues, Mr. JAWS is sort of uncooperative about Russian unless specifically told to deal. Sigh. Whine.
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