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September 30, 2009, 01:38 AM
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No llegó la sangre al río
This is one of Robin's.
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September 30, 2009, 05:23 AM
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"no ha llegado la sangre al rio." = "it's not all that bad.", or "it's not so bad
as all that." hermit
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October 01, 2009, 01:47 AM
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Not to have serious consequences
things never get bloody they never came to blows You´re right, it was one of mine. Last edited by AngelicaDeAlquezar; October 01, 2009 at 05:14 AM.
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October 01, 2009, 03:42 AM
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Your last translation is my favourite, Robin. Keeps the same violent flavour of the original.
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"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." from Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie
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