# It's International Book Week! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232 "2013-09-19T14:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/21 "2013-09-20T00:04:28Z")
“There’s room, even with the rest of our raw meat, including the piece we took for Wolf.” I’m embarrassed that that book is the closes one to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kiwi\_Fruit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiwi_fruit/32/12_2.png) [@Kiwi\_Fruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiwi_Fruit)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/22 "2013-09-20T01:19:25Z")
‘It’s all right,’ I said, looking at him. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/23 "2013-09-20T01:25:01Z")
Crustacea, krus-ta’she-a, n.pl. A division of animals, comprising crabs, shrimps, etc., having an external skeleton or shell. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/24 "2013-09-20T02:33:11Z")
“Smiling, she asked how many would I kill.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/25 "2013-09-20T03:18:10Z")
"It was hoped that she could remove the obstructions that blocked the gunboats at Drewry’s Bluff and/or destroy the bridge at Petersburg; Golsborough had absolutely no faith in the submarine. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/26 "2013-09-20T11:07:01Z")
We got Pegeen into hospital. ---
**Author:** ![krunen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@krunen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krunen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/27 "2013-09-20T11:50:31Z")
Anno m.cc.iiii. hugo de lacy uenit cum exercitu ultoniam & commisit bellum cum ioanne decursi. (I’m cheating a bit - this was from page 53, the English translation was on page 52. My father decided to learn Latin at the age of 70 and left this book here.) ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/28 "2013-09-20T12:12:08Z")
Well this is profound… “To do so is worthwhile.” ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/29 "2013-09-20T18:03:11Z")
The main goal is to keep releted information on one page. (I’m at work, so all I have are dictionaries and style manuals) ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/30 "2013-09-20T18:53:06Z")
If there is anything that irritates sailors and makes them feel hardly used, it is being deprived of their Sabbath. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/31 "2013-09-20T19:02:45Z")
It isn’t your fault And it isn’t your loss That a stitch in time will gather no moss. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/32 "2013-09-20T21:02:20Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I’m also at work, and the nearest book to me is a work book: > > In many respects, she was old beyond her years, having experienced the death of her paternal grandfather, a young neighbor, and her first dog by age four. Boy, that copier manual really wandered off the topic, didn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/33 "2013-09-20T21:13:58Z")
Then our father said, go back and buy a little more food. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/34 "2013-09-20T21:51:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Got home, and picked up the nearest book by my computer: > > “I obscenity in the milk of thy obscenity.” [sic] I read that decades ago and it stuck in my head. Hemmingway was translating Spanish where there are many variations of “I shit in the milk he was given by his whore mother” or just “I shit in the fucking milk”. Of course the English bowdlerized translation just sounds silly, especially in a war context of _For Whom The Bells Toll_. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/35 "2013-09-20T22:02:46Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > I read that decades ago and it stuck in my head. Hemingway was translating Spanish where there are many variations of “I shit in the milk he was given by his whore mother” or just “I shit in the fucking milk”. Of course the English bowdlerized translation just sounds silly, especially in a war context of _For Whom The Bells Toll_. Actually, the source I was quoting from was _Thank You For The Giant Sea Tortoise, and other unforeseen results of New York Magazine competitions_. The particular entry had the competitor attempting to relate the story of Little Boy Blue as if told by Hemingway. Since it was for a magazine competition, the competitor decided to go with “obscenity” instead. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/36 "2013-09-20T22:27:09Z")
“Therefore etc.” Since that’s so unenlightening you can have the sixth sentence too: “As Todhunter remarks, the converse of this proposition is true and very important: if two opposite angles of a quadrilateral be together equal to two right angles, a circle may be circumscribed about the quadrilateral”. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/37 "2013-09-20T22:36:31Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Actually, the source I was quoting from was _Thank You For The Giant Sea Tortoise, and other unforeseen results of New York Magazine competitions_. The particular entry had the competitor attempting to relate the story of Little Boy Blue as if told by Hemingway. Since it was for a magazine competition, the competitor decided to go with “obscenity” instead. Hemingway used “obscenity” in the original. > [@](#): > > [For Whom the Bell Tolls - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls) > > In another odd stylistic variance, Hemingway referenced foul language (used with some frequency by different characters in the novel) with “unprintable” and “obscenity” and substitutes “muck” for fuck in the dialogue and thoughts of the characters, although foul language is used freely in Spanish even when its equivalent is censored in English (e.g. joder, me cago). The Spanish expression of exasperation “me cago en la leche” repeatedly recurs throughout the novel, translated by Hemingway as “I obscenity in the milk.” I think I am going to start using “I obscenity in the milk” to swear in English. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/38 "2013-09-21T00:47:23Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > “There’s room, even with the rest of our raw meat, including the piece we took for Wolf.” > > I’m embarrassed that that book is the closes one to me. Oh good grief. Is this an Auel? If so, I’m going to guess at the book. I’m going to be embarrassed if I’m right. _Plains of Passage?_ ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/39 "2013-09-21T00:50:19Z")
The closest book to me is on my ipad, so I used the one I’ve most recently been reading. “There were sharp cracks from all over her body.” ---
**Author:** ![Swamp\_Adder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Swamp\_Adder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swamp_Adder)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/40 "2013-09-21T01:24:54Z")
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