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What is the best translation into standard English of this piece of dialect from Hurston's Sweat Sykes what you throw dat whip on me like dat?
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"Sykes, why did you throw that whip on me like that?" is the best translation into Standard English of this piece of dialect.
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What is the best translation into standard English of this piece dialect from hurstons Sweat?
Sykes, why did you throw that whip on me like that? Look here, Sykes, you've gone too far.
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