can someone from the uk help me?
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7 May 2008, 19:52
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need to translate this @ english class
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_riverstale.htm
but some of the words are like wtf to me, so if anyone that understands it could translate it to american english so i can translate it to estonian that'd be nice
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_riverstale.htm
but some of the words are like wtf to me, so if anyone that understands it could translate it to american english so i can translate it to estonian that'd be nice
"I walk my beat" etc
You could easily google/dictionary the words you don't understand you lazy bastard!
Even I'd be confused with this.
oops sry ur est :DD
Five hours up and seven down.
Up I go till I end my run // run - not literal, end of the patrol
At Tide-end-town, which is Teddington.
Down I come with the mud in my hands
And plaster it over the Maplin Sands. // plaster is a verb in this context - to smear or rub in.
But I'd have you know that these waters of mine // waters here means rivers, canals or brooks
Were once a branch of the River Rhine,
When hundreds of miles to the East I went
And England was joined to the Continent.
"I remember the bat-winged lizard-birds,
The Age of Ice and the mammoth herds,
And the giant tigers that stalked them down
Through Regent's Park into Camden Town.
And I remember like yesterday
The earliest Cockney who came my way, // cockney is someone from East London
When he pushed through the forest that lined the Strand,
With paint on his face and a club in his hand.
He was death to feather and fin and fur.
He trapped my beavers at Westminster.
He netted my salmon, he hunted my deer,
He killed my heron off Lambeth Pier.
He fought his neighbour with axes and swords,
Flint or bronze, at my upper fords,
While down at Greenwich, for slaves and tin,
The tall Phoenician ships stole in,
And North Sea war-boats, painted and gay, // olde English gay, meaning colourful and bright
Flashed like dragon-flies, Erith way;
And Norseman and Negro and Gaul and Greek
Drank with the Britons in Barking Creek,
And life was gay, and the world was new,
And I was a mile across at Kew!
But the Roman came with a heavy hand, // heavy hand, again not literal but a strong or forceful hand
And bridged and roaded and ruled the land,
And the Roman left and the Danes blew in -
And that's where your history-books begin!"
The only other ones that would seem odd to foreigners are the place names/nouns, Which Are Easy To Spot Because They're All Capitalised.
give your cfg.
go outside, mongolboy :DD
but it's okay, i've created my own smiley - :KKK
:LOS
easy :P
first you had "why do admins keep persisting in banning you azatej :o"
and i corrected your in to on
then you edited it to on and now you added another on (wrong)