Meaning
“whoever you may be grant me yet another prayer. Strike me, I beg you, one blow. I have deserved it richly, and even a more severe penalty.”
I can not understand the meaning of this saying. Could you help me?
Top answer
That is in a deliberately old-fashioned and ceremonial style, being as it is from a modern adaptation of a tale from Arabian Nights . It reads like a bad translation, actually, by a non-native speaker. There is a comma missing after "be".
- That is in a deliberately old-fashioned and ceremonial style, being as it is from a modern adaptation of a tale from Arabian Nights .
- It reads like a bad translation, actually, by a non-native speaker.
- There is a comma missing after "be".
- You should not be reading stuff like this if you want to learn English.
- It is made-up gobbledegook in a non-existent idiom.
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That is in a deliberately old-fashioned and ceremonial style, being as it is from a modern adaptation of a tale from Arabian Nights. It reads like a bad translation, actually, by a non-native speaker. There is a comma missing after "be". You should not be reading stuff like this if you want to learn English. It is made-up gobbledegook in a non-existent idiom.
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