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Su filindeu, Cagliari. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·3 days ago
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A NY Times interactive story about “the world’s rarest pasta,” by Matt Goulding, is interesting on a number of counts. Of course if one likes pasta it’s great to see it being made in such an elaborate way (“Stretched by hand, a single ball of dough is…

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Chuschagasta. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·3 days ago
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I was reading about a recent documentary called Nuestra Tierra (apparently translated as both Our Land and Landmarks), which “examines issues of land ownership in Argentina and interrogates the role of this history in the murder of Javier Chocobar, a…

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Abbots and Beavers. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·3 days ago
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I’m finally getting around to Richard Tarrant’s Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism, which bulbul gave me back in 2018, and I thought I’d quote this passage from the introduction (p. 11; I added a few links):

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But Local. : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·3 days ago
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#languagehat#voice#smith#voices#play#speak

I enjoyed all of Edward Mendelson’s NYRB review (archived) of Zadie Smith’s play The Wife of Willesden (a riff on Chaucer’s Wife of Bath); here I will excerpt a section on a topic dear to my heart, the importance of a clear personal voice in any literary…

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Real or Fake Insults? : languagehat.com

languagehat.com·languagehat·3 days ago
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One of those silly but enjoyable online quizzes, from Isabella Kwai at the NY Times: “Hey, Bampot! Can You Tell Real British Insults From Fakes in This Quiz?” (archived). The intro:

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