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everyday i mourn that my parents did not make me study five languages during my critical window of language acquisition (2 to 7 years)

moonlightingcurse

And this is hard, anyway, because I can’t take any meaning from the text. Ophelia’s just singing nonsense songs.

#we call this ‘the tenant method’#in my theater company #eloquently explaining the text to the actor #in the hopes that will somehow grant them #the technical ability to perform what you describe #so so tempting and so rarely successful #like giving line readings #which he also does here 😂#love this show

omgthatdress

Guards at the exhibition have fire on sight orders if Kim Kardashian comes within 500 feet of the building.

phantomleaves

photographs of victorian and edwardian women and girls wearing glasses.. so cute

bulljumpingfresco

Ancient Rome Theatrical Masks AD 100-200 mosaic Musei Capitolini, Rome

schmergo

I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about the use of “Dad” and “Let’s go” in the trailer for The Odyssey, but this is the weird paradox we fall into when adapting ancient stories for modern audiences.

We literally can’t translate it into old enough English to fit the time period and still expect moviegoers to follow the dialogue.

About the earliest version of English that most moviegoers can understand is “Early Modern English.” That’s the English spoken in around 1500-1700. It’s the English of the King James Bible and Shakespeare plays.

Shakespeare uses the word “Dad” and the phrase “Let’s go” in his plays.

There was no English language during the time of Homer and any English earlier than “early modern” would look like this:

“Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote/ The droghte of March hath perced to the roote..."

deathandmysticism

Actor battles a ghost, 19th century

misscromwellsmonocle

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

darnitjack

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

kuttithevangu

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

#throwing tantrums onstage soooo i dont do it in real life

wildgifthorses

Formal experiments make it so tempting to irritate followers with a conceit forcing unnatural snytax and wording on sentiments lacking in substantive meat. Rather than keeping a regular meter a proper expression of well-defined views has to conform to the structure of thought and proceed at the rhythm of actual news.

jadagul

There's a linguist, Anne Cutler, who studied how everyday speech is affected by rhythm and rhyme. She wrote "The perception of rhythm in language". It's easy to read and it's well worth your time.

#to read

clove-pinks

Saw a bilingual Canadian sign that read NO LOITERING/FLÂNAGE INTERDIT and I'm losing it over "flânage." Flânage? Like flâneur?? They made it illegal to be a cool 19th century guy???

pilferingapples

DETACHED OBSERVATION OF SOCIETY FORBIDDEN

NO ENTRANCING WOMEN WITH YOUR HOURGLASS WAIST AND FULL HIPS

OR THE ELEPHANT GETS YOU

foundationaldecay

hamlet / bill and ted’s excellent adventure

fluentisonus

the near universal absence of hose in late medieval inspired visual media is so evil not for historical accuracy reasons or anything but bc I think they're hot & I'm offended by the implication that they're too weird or unattractive to include. fake men's legs enjoyers everywhere. I bet they wouldn't even appreciate the eroticism of a little flash of braies where the thigh meets the body if they got it. sad!

darkcomedies

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

darkcomedies

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

elizabitchtaylor-deactivated202

tennessee williams play

abd-illustrates

withered, once-beautiful matriarch: my, it sure is hot tonight in… the south.

smoulderingly handsome, reckless heir to the family estate: *leans on a doorframe* hot- yes, just like the heat of my repressed homosexuality and barely concealed rage.