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fluentisonus · 1 month ago

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genuinely love the hapgood thou tbh & I kind of want to see it taken it further just for curiosity's sake if nothing else & see what it'd be like to actually change every use of tu to thou rather than just the particularly important ones like she does. I don't have the time or patience to do this unfortunately but I would like to read it

#thoughts #i can read french well enough to get the vibe in passages of the original ofc but ig some of it is just curiosity to see what it'd be like #to read like. Modern longform prose in english thst consistently uses this distinction all the way through. it's really interesting getting #little glimpses of it in hapgood #and also just as an experiment with translation.#in that like. what if instead of sacrificing the t/v distinction for modern tone re: avoiding antiquated pronouns we decided retaining the #distinction is more important actually.#idk contemplating. chewing on it #where's that bit abt translations being about emphasis & sacrifice & choose how to do that in which directions

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