irishironclad:

delvinanaris:

apocryphics:

lydia davis

And it’s not like other languages don’t offer the ability to switch registers; many do, in various different ways, often not easily translated into English.

But most other languages don’t do this by literally switching which sub-language of themselves you’re using.

It also makes it somewhat more ambiguous in English—in other languages (at least, the ones I’m familiar with; I won’t try to make a universal claim!), switching registers is an explicit thing. You’ll use the informal form, or you’ll use the formal. In English, because it’s just using different words with roughly the same definitions, in a language richly supplied with synonyms, it’s not that hard to, say, write an introduction for a character who’s speaking primarily in the upper, Latinate, register—but without genuinely intending to be presenting themselves as formal, educated, or snobbish.

And I just think that’s neat.

Say what you want about English it’s extremely versatile when it comes to unsaid implications and such. Which is why it’s so fucking hard to learn sometimes.

podcastwizard:

dnd jokes that will always be funny no matter what your dm tells you

• “jesus christ” “who’s that”
• “this is just like (tv show/movie)” “that’s my favorite play”
• referring to famous musicians or actors from the real world as “bards”
• adding the word “fantasy” in front of modern things (i pull out my Fantasy iPhone and open Fantasy Tinder)
• “how hurt are you” “on a scale of one to twenty-eight i’d say i’m at about a nine.”

feel free to add more

brothercrush:

babe are you ok? you’re re-reading julio cortazár’s axolotl again…..

hartenlust:

“I’m not a believer,” Wilson told me, “but I find that there is a sort of religious practice that goes along with translation. I’m trying to serve something.”

NYT interview with Dr. Emily Wilson, re her translation of the Odyssey

mag200:

you may walk out of the underworld but you have to trust that she is behind you. do not look back to check.

i trust that she is there

i trust that she is there (i think)

i trust that she is there (please?)

i trust that she is there (can you hear me?)

i trust that she is there (say something so i can hear you)

i trust that she is there (what if it’s a lie?)

i trust that she is there (i can’t even see her shadow on the wall)

i trust that she is there (SAY SOMETHING)

SAY SOMETHING.

look behind.

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ethanmaldridge:

What happens, happens.

And then, we are gone.

wild-gastronomy:

Luca van Vliet Ceramics