Against Fluency - Tetragrammaton
Literary texts tend to distort the linearity of narrative sequence, and to reproduce the coexistence and simultaneity of interiorized events that resist conventional linear chronology. The narrative thread unravels freely between past and present, between different temporal planes, combining high and low registers, erudite literary references, popu... See more
Translation as a Practice of Acceptance - Asymptote
language. Linguistic barriers are not surmounted so easily.
Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Translating means to give the truest possible account of the original work, using different words – it does not mean the freedom to make something fit. As well, the mere copying of quotes almost always changes their meaning by stripping them out of context, even though the words aren’t changed. This is a common beginner mistake, which can only lead
... See moreSönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Because of the compulsion of work and production, we are losing the capacity to play. We only rarely make playful use of language; we only put it to work. It is obliged to communicate information or produce meaning. As a result, we have no access to forms of language that shine all by themselves. Language as a medium of information has no splendour
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
If we define language fluency as one’s proficiency to read, write and speak, then there’s a new need for the Rosetta Stone of the digital age.
Matt Klein • Why We Need The New Rosetta Stone for Gen Z
Translation is the sum of its choices, choices that are more or less persuasive, more or less justifiable, but always subjective.