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t_yamasi@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp (Yamashiki Tsuyoshi):

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>>> 	Half-Orcs are, let's face it, ugly.

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[several poetic paraphrases deleted]

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>Readers of which English is your first language, what do you say?
>I'd really like to know.

Bart Mathias $@$H?=$7$^$9!#(J
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I haven't seen a response to Mr. Yamashiki's query, so I feel the call of
duty as a reader of which English is my first language.

Mr. Nishikawa's suggestion is ingenious, and all his suggested translations
strike me as being in the ball park (on the right track), but as for the
specific interpretation "(it = orc's face)," there are two reasons why it
would be difficult for a native speaker to get.

1) We are too familiar with the expression "Let's face it" and accustomed
   to understanding "it" to mean "this fact that we would like to avoid if
   we could."
2) The sentence begins "Half-Orcs ARE."  Thus there is more than one (half-)
   orc, and we would have to face "them," not "it."  There is a growing
   tendency in English to say "it" for "them," but I think not so soon 
   after a plural verb.

To the extent I can appreciate the Japanese, I found Mr. Kawai's transla-
tions masterful.
Sorry about the English.  I do not yet have Japanese-text input capabilities.

Bart Mathias