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Sing us a Catholic song in Nigerian tongues
The tune was simple enough, but to pronounce the words with the correct Izzi intonation was grueling.
On Translating al-mu‘allaqāt, The Hanging Poems
"Endless night, won't you clear off/with the coming dawn?"
Machine Translation
Work is being done, but a machine is doing it; I have a translation, but where is the translator?
Certain resemblances between Ba Jin’s ‘Jia’ and ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’
While Jia offered a unique cross section of a crucial turning point in Chinese history, the novel was also laced with such sappiness as to make it all but impossible to read for a modern reader weaned on postmodern irony and detachment.
