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Please can someone make sense of this bit of colloquial speech. I don't have any context but some of the vocabulary is impossible to translate:-
— Τι μούτρα είν' αυτά, μωρέ; Ποιος σ' έκαμ' έτσι;
— Μην τα ρωτάς! Γένηκαν τραγικά πράμματα. Δε σούλεγα πως θα βρω μπελλά; Ένας παλιάνθρωπος απαλλαγέντας=(one exempted from military service) ήθελε και καλά να πη πως δεν ήμουνα στο Βελεστίνο. — «Ώστε ψέματα λέω εγώ; — Ψέματα, μου λέει. — Εγώ, μωρέ; — Εσύ» Του καταφέρνω ένα σκαμπίλι και πιανόμαστε. Του δίδω, μου δίδει. Στο ύστερο τραβώ την κάμα και τον αρχίζω. Πελέκημα σωστό.
Here is my guess, but it is only that:-
-What's happened to your face, dude? Who did this?
-Don't ask. Disastrous stuff happened. Didn't I tell you that I'd find trouble? A bastard who'd been let off military service supposedly wanted to say that I wasn't In Velestino --So do I tell lies? -- Lies, he says to me.-- I,dude!--You. I manage to punch him & we come to blows. I give one to him. He gives one to me. Then I turn on the heat & start on him. A right roughing up!
This is a poor attempt but I might have got some of the meaning.:)
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— Τι μούτρα είν' αυτά, μωρέ; Ποιος σ' έκαμ' έτσι;
— Μην τα ρωτάς! Γένηκαν τραγικά πράμματα. Δε σούλεγα πως θα βρω μπελλά; Ένας παλιάνθρωπος απαλλαγέντας=(one exempted from military service) ήθελε και καλά να πη πως δεν ήμουνα στο Βελεστίνο. — «Ώστε ψέματα λέω εγώ; — Ψέματα, μου λέει. — Εγώ, μωρέ; — Εσύ» Του καταφέρνω ένα σκαμπίλι και πιανόμαστε. Του δίδω, μου δίδει. Στο ύστερο τραβώ την κάμα και τον αρχίζω. Πελέκημα σωστό.
Here is my guess, but it is only that:-
-What's happened to your face, dude? Who did this?
-Don't ask. Disastrous stuff happened. Didn't I tell you that I'd find trouble? A bastard who'd been let off military service supposedly wanted to say that I wasn't In Velestino --So do I tell lies? -- Lies, he says to me.-- I,dude!--You. I manage to punch him & we come to blows. I give one to him. He gives one to me. Then I turn on the heat & start on him. A right roughing up!
This is a poor attempt but I might have got some of the meaning.:)
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