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“Yes, that’s it, that is what I should have said to her.”
– Haruki Murakami, On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (thanks, nonesuchunsuitable)
Best mistakes in pronunciation
talesfromtefl:
No, you can’t! - /nəʊ, juː kʌnt/
It’s fact - /ɪts fʌkt/
Focus - /fʌkʌs/
Can you guys suggest any more?
Did you lie beaches? - /dɪd juː laɪ ˈbɪʧɪz/
Hit The Bottom And Escape: At least once or twice... →
violent-buddhist:
The Flash
It happened one day, at a crossroads, in the middle of a crowd, people coming and going. I stopped, blinked: suddently I understood nothing. Nothing, nothing about anything: I did not understand the reasons for things or for people, it was all senseless, absurd. I laughed. What I…
“When compared with the suppression of anarchy, every other question sinks into...”
– Theodore Roosevelt, via Reason.
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illiad
listened to the new yorker podcast this morning about a new translation of the illiad. it talked about how it was assumed, until C18, that homer was a guy, an ancient master to be revered or reviled.
then, in C19, he became a cultural symbol, not a man. as biblical studies progressed and people realized that god himself probably didn’t write the bible himself, scholars applied the idea to...