relatedly, my all-time favourite translation note concerning a single word
Yo,
Also known as the exact moment I feel for Heaney’s BEOWULF.
You know. From the first word.
For me it was “thole” in the forward, before I even got to the text of the translation …
Both of these excerpts are from Heaney’s forward to the Norton edition.
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relatedly, my all-time favourite translation note concerning a single word
Yo,
Also known as the exact moment I feel for Heaney’s BEOWULF.
You know. From the first word.
For me it was “thole” in the forward, before I even got to the text of the translation …
Both of these excerpts are from Heaney’s forward to the Norton edition.
OMFG, Duolingo just asked me to translate “on ne vit qu’une fois” so I typed in “YOLO” and it accepted my answer!