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I love you translator notes I love you translators caring that I fully grasp the meaning of the original text I love you translators adding cultural context and specifics so I can better understand what's going on I love you long rants on why a joke is impossible to translate I love you translators adding their little comments to the scene I love you translators feeling human and involved in the material I love you translating as a form of art I love you little t/n abbreviation
#me but also I'm the translator and I'm writing an entire paragraph about how english doesn't do i good job differentiating between#national identity citizenship and ethnic identity#and this paragraph corresponds to a word that comes up once
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interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?
me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has
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Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes
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(to the tune of working on the railroad) iiive been working on the railrooad
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#this is oona @ me#except that's the devil talking bc i need to finish my thesis#<- is on Tumblr instead of working on my thesis
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i love you, Two Catfish as Street Musicians in the Kashina district, ca 1855 of an unidentified artist, you go so hard
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love the word “rapscallion”. like not only are you a rascal but you’re also kind of spring onion about it too
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I like this professor so he gets a pass but he is twenty minutes late for a meeting that was meant to last twenty minutes
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american kestrel
tell me your favorite bird of prey :-)
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Dear professor this assignment did not nourish my fundamentally curious soul so i did not do it No penalty full 100 points please Goodbye!
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Babylonian out of office message: my sincerest apologies my wife is giving birth. I will process your clay tablet after lunch
Egyptian out of office message: unfortunately I am out of the temple on pilgrimage to Thebes. Your email will not be forwarded. I will respond to your query after the Nile floods have concluded
#oh to be an ancient egyptian ignoring emails#also very funny that the egyptian gets emails while the babylonian has clay tablets#unless this is juxtaposing a babylonian and a modern egyptian in which case this is even funnier in trying to imagine was possible sequence#of events prompted this comparison
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boob window showing off the gaping hole in my chest
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you do not miss them btw. you miss the version of them you created in your head to which they never lived up to
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