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We often think of language as a means to an end, but rarely take the time to consider whether language in itself is influencing our thoughts, not just enabling the sharing of them.
Steph Smith • Gaining Perspective Through Untranslatable Words
I often feel like I am a different person when I speak different languages
As anything scales too effectively - from fashion to restaurants to music - the market opens for more non-scalable alternatives. Once Starbucks opens on every block, many of us crave the artisanal coffee shop. Once our favorite Italian restaurant becomes a chain of three, we grow tired of it. Why? First, so much of what we buy and do is tied up in ... See more
Scott Belsky • Joyspan, Emotional AI Bumpers, Persona Designers, & More Wild Concepts Bound to Become Commonplace Plus Where High-Tech Entertainment Brings Us
our choices are tied to identity and feeling unique and that cannot be established in scale
Designing Friction – a call for friction in digital culture – explores the concept of consciously reintroducing obstacles and resistance in our online interactions to foster human connections. It can be seen as a new design paradigm not focussing on seamless experiences but on human connection. What does it mean to be human?”
... See moreWe are so used to design taking away friction from our lives that it causes impatience in the real world. Because the real world has friction: flights get delayed, people get busy, things go out of stock
In Poisonwood Bible, Nathan Price gives sermons where “Tata Jesus is bangala”, “bangala” meaning beloved. But due to his mispronunciation, it means “poisonwood” instead of “beloved”
Set around the story of missionaries trying to spread the word of Christianity in the newly liberated Congo, this misinterpretation ties into the Price family trying to force their beliefs and cultures onto the Congolese without understanding their cultural beliefs.
Also related to Adah collecting misprinted Bibles
Convenience is Destroying Culture
youtube.comProducts used to mold to us. As a dancer, my feet would be turned out, so the inside of my shoes would get worn out before the outside. Or my favorite pair of velvet pants have a mark at the backside from hours of sitting in front of the computer. Or a wood dinner table with marks of wine glasses signifying the history of long conversations on dinner parties. Signs of wear, tear, use.
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel
― R.F. Kuang, Babel
Babel Quotes by R.F. Kuang
The products we have now, beg for attention. A hammer is a hammer. It doesn’t ask to be used. But our products now demand our attention. They glow, they vibrate, they ping and make noises.
As I make hundreds of small choices throughout the day, I’m building a life—but at one and the same time, I’m closing off the possibility of countless others, forever. (The original Latin word for “decide,” decidere, means “to cut off,” as in slicing away alternatives; it’s a close cousin of words like “homicide” and “suicide.”)