“My Mama Said” so “Sorry in Advance”
Poetry for the woman who taught me to be bright
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Poetry
A translator lost in translation
“Translate the following passage into clear, idiomatic English.” My mind wanders from the examination booklet in front of me to my grammars and commentaries. The words of old men, commenting on and arranging the words of older men, bleed together. They suggest a singular reading of a single text—the one I am supposed to replicate
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The nuance of language
“Translation failure happens frequently between languages that have very different features. Direct word-to-word translation is not applicable in some situations.”
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Love poetry
Share it with the people you love ten word story she loved him b;jt ah shit backspace no wait stop *** you say you are in love but you say you are in Burlington which is it how can you be both *** shall i compare thee to a summer’s day warm and full of flies *** he was
Finding intersectional feminism in the psych ward
The first thing you learn in the psych ward is that everybody has a story.
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