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I’ve frequently had occasion to complain about translators simply skipping passages they found difficult, and I’ve run across some in my latest reading. I decided to finally try one of Mark Aldanov’s historical novels, and I chose


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A recent Works in Progress post by Henry Oliver is far too long and repetitious (ironically, because his subject is style in English), but it has some useful thoughts and examples; if you’re good at skimming it might be worth taking a look at. (War...


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Sarah Thomason (see this LH post) posted on Facebook as follows:

It occurre...


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I saw a mention of a Boris Vian novel called Trouble dans les andains and was troubled by the fact that I had no idea what andains were. Wikipedia gave ...


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Bees, Wasps.

Joel at Far Outliers posts excerpts from Aleksandra Jagielska’s Culture.pl article on entomological etymolog...


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