It's so comforting to me to hear about your neighbors' improv story making games.
About Babel: I couldn't agree more if I had a dump truck. The number of times I've heard monolingual anglophone USians prove that this or that is The State of Nature in terms of US wording or grammar.
And I periodically remember how, when I was six, I got worried about how poems could be translated-- surely, I thought, a word for the same entity/action/concept wouldn't rhyme across all languages? (Obviously I had strong ideas of What Poems Were, too.)
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Date: 2024-01-12 06:05 am (UTC)About Babel: I couldn't agree more if I had a dump truck. The number of times I've heard monolingual anglophone USians prove that this or that is The State of Nature in terms of US wording or grammar.
And I periodically remember how, when I was six, I got worried about how poems could be translated-- surely, I thought, a word for the same entity/action/concept wouldn't rhyme across all languages? (Obviously I had strong ideas of What Poems Were, too.)