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33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" » English to Polish

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Source text in English

[...] “I have a proposal.” It leaned forward like my friend April does when she wants to tell a secret, even though none of her secrets are any good. Or even really secrets. “If you don’t tell anyone I am here, I can fix your eyes.”
“Get out of town!”
It blinked a couple of times. “That is what I am attempting to do.”
“What I mean is you can’t do that!”
“Why not?”
“Well, no one else has been able to fix my eyes, besides with glasses.”
“I have certain abilities. You will see, provided…”
“…I don’t tell anyone about you?”
“That is the heart of it, that is the nub.”
“How do I know you won’t blind me? You could be like one of those telemarketers making promises but totally lying.”
It started waxing on, waxing off again. “I would not do such a thing to a creature who has done me no harm.”
“Meaning if I harmed you, you could make me go blind?”
“That’s on a need-to-know basis.”
“And if you fix my eyes, and I don’t tell anyone about you, you’ll leave our fields?”
“That’s the heart of it!” [...]

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Entry #38164 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Standard-Poland
EI1
EI1
Poland
Winner
Voting points1st2nd3rd
6015 x400
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– Mam
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Jedyne tłu​maczenie, ​w którym z​astosowano​ polski za​pis dialog​ów (choć j​est kilka ​błędów).
Joanna Wons
Nachyliło się jak moja przyjaciółka
Flows well
Dobry kont​ekst
itbc
+2
– Akurat, spadaj!
Flows well
Joanna Wons
+1
obiecują złote góry
Flows well
great choi​ce of word​s
Anna Sieroslawska
nabijają ludzi w butelkę
Flows well
great choi​ce of word​s
Anna Sieroslawska
Entry #38387 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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1608 x20
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mimo że ani jeden z jej sekretów tak naprawdę nie jest żadną tajemnicą.
Flows well
Paulina Ciecierska
Entry #38537 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Standard-Poland
Katarzyna Czarniak
Katarzyna Czarniak
United Kingdom
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101 x406 x1
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