Interesting piece, thanks! So not The Death of the Author but The Silencing of the Translator..
Anyone know who translated Foucault's Les mots et les chose into English?
Sad that the recent edition gives no details
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Sad that the recent edition gives no details
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The Order of Things
When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He di...
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Proof emerged on the verso of this coin, authenticated only in 2022. Definitely corn and proof that the Dacians made it across the Atlantic!
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Stories in monosyllables from 1886, for didactic purposes
(Creangă, Metoda nouă)
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(Creangă, Metoda nouă)
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New book: Tudor Dinu, "Grecia din România: Mănăstirile închinate din Ţara Românească şi Moldova, 1564–1866" [Greece in Romania: The Dedicated Monasteries of Wallachia and Moldavia, 1564-1866] humanitas.ro/humanitas/ca....
amăgi related to magic - ultimately μαγεύω 'bewitch, enchant'
cf. farmec < φάρμακον 'drug, enchantment'
cf. farmec < φάρμακον 'drug, enchantment'
A couple of examples from the 1930s. But yes I think yr right, it didn't really enter popular speech
dspace.bcucluj.ro/jspui/simple...
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"te amăgești" e vechi, limbaj normal. "autoamăgire" e sigur un calc, poate "Selbsttäuschung", self-deception
Thanks a lot - very interesting comments on how the term becomes technical, even though "amăgi" is a v popular word. DEX attributes to Camil Petrescu, so def. a calque of some kind
autoamăgire 'deluding yourself' - definitely a thing but a word that people actually use? Comments appreciated
dexonline.ro/definitie/au...
dexonline.ro/definitie/au...
Proofs!
Alex Drace-Francis
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· Jun 30
Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area - an online database of language contact phenomena as attested in the Balkan languages abla.cnrs.fr
The Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is an online database of language contact phenomena as attested in the Balkan languages.
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Fascinating - where was your source writing from?
NB Wiktionary has quite good lists of languages into which the word was borrowed (directly or indirectly)
From Persian: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DA%A9%...
From Turkish:
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%83%...
NB Wiktionary has quite good lists of languages into which the word was borrowed (directly or indirectly)
From Persian: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DA%A9%...
From Turkish:
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%83%...
کوفته - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
en.wiktionary.org
Attested in Turkish from 14th century, presumably in Persian well before that. Either of these could be language of borrowing?
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The Danube Divide: Why Europe’s River of Peace Remains a Dream
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Excellent resource below, but to be fair, some of the symptoms are characteristic of bad academic writing as it has been explicitly taught
"Maybe life is really about dodging about to achieve moments where the work can happen. And often you fuck up your life in order to get that moment. But that’s the way it can be when the muses have your telephone number.”
- RIP Tony Harrison
- RIP Tony Harrison
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Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88
Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all
Tony Harrison, the award-winning poet and dramatist whose writings fuelled national conversations about class, obscenity and politics, has died at the age of 88, his publisher has confirmed.
Harrison, a major voice in British poetry since he published his first collection in 1964, wrote front-page dispatches for the Guardian from the Bosnian war, and scandalised the nation with his 1985 poem V. Written after football hooligans desecrated his parents’ gravestones, the expletive-laden work was described as a “torrent of filth” by the Daily Mail when it was broadcast on Channel 4, prompting an early-day motion in the Commons. It is now studied in schools. Continue reading...
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Today I learnt to say Калдъръм кокона [caldaram cucoana], apparently a Plovdiv phrase for a pretty lady who manages to walk in stiletto heels on the cobblestones of the Old Town...
Had never occurred to me that all these French town names are in fact plurals (as are many Romanian town names..)
- Rickard, History of the French Language, p. 5
- Rickard, History of the French Language, p. 5
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Today is the European Day of Languages. And this year, we mark 25 years of celebrating multilingualism in our Union. 🥳
Languages open doors. They help us connect, explore cultures, make lifelong friends, and journey further.
We remain stronger, united in our diversity.
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Languages open doors. They help us connect, explore cultures, make lifelong friends, and journey further.
We remain stronger, united in our diversity.
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Mamaliga Festival held in Nova Cherna, Bulgaria, now in its 12th year. Next Saturday 4 October, for anyone in the vicinity
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Nova Cherna Mamaliga Festival | Tourist Information Center •Eastern Danube Elia•
A main attraction of the festival every year is the preparation of mamaliga (polenta) in an authentic way.
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📢 New Seminar Series!
We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)
We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)
There was indeed a swan-panic in 2003 Britain - I remember it well - but it wasn't a British invention. Rumours thatthe swans at Schönbrunn Palace were being eaten by Roma migrants were widespread in 1990s Austria.
So the British rumour was itself a migrant...
So the British rumour was itself a migrant...
Absolutely not. Britain came up with the migrants-eating-beloved-animals meme ("Swan bake", The Sun, 2003). And which country pioneered irresponsible speculation about medicines and autism? America is a re-exporter.
