© Eytán Lasca-Szalit, abril de 2020
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Malapropisms
The
point is that I had already forgiven her transgressions a couple of times. Okay,
she slept with Bermúdez, that imbecile, but I let it go. Then, finding her in
our bed next to Müller, that damn fool, was a bitter pill to swallow but “flesh
is weak”, it says so in the Bible. However, when for the umpteenth time she
said “imply” instead of “infer”, “apolitical” instead of “apodictic” and “convulsion”
instead of “commotion”, it made my blood boil and I grabbed the Smith & Wesson. At that point, she still had a chance to save herself, but she goes and
says to me: "Okay, I’ll get fucked out of here", instead of “I’ll get
the fuck out of here” and I pulled the trigger. But I didn't want to kill her, Your
Honor!