"how can you translate that?" @theloverspeaks - Tumblr Blog

Interviewer: What difference in usage would you point out in these three languages [Russian, English, French], these three instruments?

Nabokov: Naunces. If you take framboise in French, for example, it’s a scarlet color, a very red color. In English, the word raspberry is rather dull, with perhaps a little brown or violet. A rather cold color. In Russian it’s a burst of light, malinovoe; the word has associations of brilliance, of gaiety, of ringing bells. How can you translate that?

- Vladimir Nabokov, Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor. Bryan Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy, Eds.

petewentzisblack1312

we do have to contend with the fact that the reason there is this like perpetual conflation funnel that turns aave and other black dialects into 'gen z slang' and memes and the reason non black performers keep putting on blaccents and the reason pictures of black people just existing gets turned into memes is the same and its because its all minstrelsy.

#a hill i will die on every time #calling language my gma has used every day of her life “gen z slang” makes me want to start biting #need to bring segregation back but like specifically for social media #aave #language

soleilinfini

mary oliver, staying alive

#nobody needs me as much as i need me #mary oliver #poesia

mi libro de apoyo emocional

#lo llevo conmigo en el bus en los días de m*erda #abro a cualquier historia y guau me siento mejor #magia #roberto bolaño #literatura #literature #bolaño #bookblr #libros #libros en español

ashstfu

shoutout to al pacino in despair. gotta be one of my fave genders

#moi dans la vrai vie

fluoresensitives

I'm so happy I learned how to read, I am so grateful my parents were able to get educations, I'm so happy that reading and care for knowledge was encouraged in the community I grew up in. And I'm horrified and so sad for everyone who's been left behind, punished, mistreated and deprived of that privilege. See how easy that is?

#It is easy to forget that reading and education were criminalized in my community only a handful of generations ago #every page read every degree granted is both a right and an honoring of those who were deprived of what is available to me freely!#reading #literacy

lemedstudent2021

just found my new favourite song (deslocado by napa) its in portuguese and while most of the comments are in a language foreign to me a few werent and it just shattered my heart to see so many people connect in this specific way; the horror and tragedy and devastation of war uprooting you from your homeland and seperating you from family and heritage and oftentimes language is an anguish ive never personally tasted and cant begin to imagine it.

#amo esta canción con fervor #Napa #deslocado

langblr do you ever dream in a language you are not yet fluent in? i am intermediate in French yet i have more dreams lately speaking French than in Spanish (which I do speak proficiently)