Apparently no one ever "buys" or "sells" anything that often, or at least it's rarely discussed.

[mc776]

The Up-Goer 5 Text Editor

Attempting to rewrite this was an unmitigated failure, but I did manage to get most of my will (the only omission is that my boss gets my law books) and the Standard CBA Real Estate Undertakings letter.

And, of course, my job description, which in retrospect I've got a much easier job of writing in this thing than a lot of people.

(h/t: steorra who got into the hall of fame EDIT: and featured on io9 with a much superior work than mine)


EDIT: it occurs to me that, in glossing over just what papers need to be signed (3 out of 4 of them dealing with tax issues and the 4th being an instrument to effect a change in a government registry) and in focussing on the "bank" sense of "institutional chargeholder", I've conveniently avoided the entire issue of referring to government institutions or taxation. I'm actually kinda scared of what stark, awful admissions must be made about our society if I did have to make explicit references in compliance with UG5TE standards.

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[helarxe]

Finally, the beginning of Herodotus. Whole sentences came through directly. Proper nouns are hardest to circumlocute. I'm reminded of Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist, which translates all place names for their etym, like calling Athens the city of Thought, Boetia, Cattle, and Sparta, Rope.

The one who tells here shows the things he learned, so the important acts of people are not forgotten in time, and great and amazing acts, some made by people of his land, some by people of worse lands, are not kept from being thought well of; and especially to show why the two peoples fought with each other.
Learned men of the great people we fought say it is the fault of this other people. This people came first from the so called Red Great Water; and as soon as they had come to our Great Water and started living in the land where they are today, they took to making long trips for buying and giving away for money. With lots of things bought from the great running water way people, and from another strong people, they stopped at many places along the water, one of them a city with a name meaning Food Land, in those days the most important place in the land that is now our land.
Here in Food Land they showed their things you can buy, and five or six days later when there were few things left, a number of women came down to the side of the water to see the place where these things were. One of these was the daughter of the highest man, and both men of my people and of the great people we fought agree on her name, and that of her father. These women were near the going over the water thing, buying what they wanted, when suddenly the men who go over water spoke between themselves and went to them quickly. Most of the women got away; but the daughter of the highest man of the place and some others were caught and taken on the going over the water thing, which went away quickly to the land of the great running water way people.
This, say the great people we fought (we have a different story), was how this woman came to the land of the great running water way people; and this was the first of many wrong acts.

[mc776]

This reads surprisingly like a lot of retellings of Native American myths in English.