, rough, rude, rudimentary

“If you study translation in Germany, you’ll go blind from the glint off all the translatrices’ glasses within the first term,” I prepared internally as my killer punchline, deciding against throwing myself in a canal as a plan B as I remembered Rasputin’s ignominious end. Anyway, I can swim.

Whatever now the omen prove, It boded well to you.

Hey. No reason for you to cop a ’tude on me just because she dumped you.