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

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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 #37928 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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“Itu sifatnya rahasia.”
Flows well
Marintan Irecky
“Tepat sekali!”
Good term selection
very well ​put!
Marintan Irecky
Entry #38303 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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Octinur Alam
Octinur Alam
Indonésia
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142 x42 x22 x1
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Yang benar saja
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nice try
fird_77
Entry #37547 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Standard-Indonesia
Arfan Achyar
Arfan Achyar
Indonésia
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101 x42 x22 x1
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