Переводческое нервное. :)

[aleine]

Оййй. Ее точно писать учили в community college.
"The harsh clatter of her more maneuverable dragonfly-like wings set the stray strands of my damp hair to tickle my face."
Кто на ком стоял?..
(Вопрос риторический. :) Требуется только сочувствие). :)

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[oryx_and_crake]

Автору - премия за самый худший стиль, однозначно.

Gerald began--but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash--to pee.

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Отсюда? http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2007.htm
Да, нашу даму вполне можно номинировать. :)