Fifty Bad Translations
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I know how they felt when they were forced to leave. Night fell. So, too, my equilibrium and pride. I thought I had it all in hand, but gravity is a betrayer. I closed my eyes and could have been among friends in my own country, not here, where I’m cold, in pain, and everyone’s a stranger.
Guete’, guete’ biaba’, sica ndaani’ ti bizé yuxi cadá yuuba’ ndaani’, cadi nisa, dxi naa biree xquidxe’. Ladxiduá’ riuuba’ casi guibane’ ne guyadxie’ ra zuhuaa; xiƱee nuaa’ xquidxi binni —rabe’ ndaani ladxiduá’— ne ma’ zigatá’ zigaze’ lu xluuna’ xtobi qué ganna’ tu laa.