@CoffeewClassics This perfectly encapsulates my opinion on it. It actually makes the translation worse because it’s not ignorance but rather modernist partisanship that underlies the entire translation.
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HoyaHusky
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If you insist on debating for the umpteenth time whether Emily Wilson’s “complicated man” was an appropriate translation of “polytropos,” please at least acknowledge she knowingly chose it as a reference to the “complicated man” pop culture antihero trope that was en vogue when she wrote her translation.
She knew exactly what she was doing with her opening line. It was a bold choice that triggered the reaction she intended.
Pedagogically, the choice is not indefensible, but it captures only one aspect of the word’s double meaning. Other translators had sound reasons for different choices, most of them imperfect too.
My problem with her word choice (to the extent I even care, life’s too short) is the extra-textual and anachronistic cultural baggage it imported, not the word on its own.
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“Influencers” like this ruin a high-trust society. Genuinely making the case for shutting down visas to Japan, and that’s a shame because I wanted to visit someday.
SonnyBoy🇺🇸@gotrice2024
This influencer asked this Texas bbq food truck in Japan to do a collab. Not only did he arrive two days early but he even brought another influencer friend unannounced. He then proceeded to be disrespectful, and spit out the food. His bad review is making the food truck now struggle. I never liked the idea of someone who is expecting free food in exchange for publicity and exposure. It seems rather one sided to me. Many times, the influencer isn’t familiar with the culture and style of food. I feel if he wasn’t used to the flavors and he didn’t like it, he didn’t have to be over dramatic about it and spit it out. He could have just said it wasn’t to his liking. For me he lost all credibility when he said the pork ribs weren’t even Wagyu when earlier it was clear he didn’t know what Wagyu tasted like when he ate the brisket. Wagyu is a breed of cow not pig, so in a sense he was right, the pork rib isn’t Wagyu. I feel he owes them an apology for his entitled behavior. It’s a shame their business is now suffering because of someone like this.
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@jkauf38669 @zachflipspages Very readable. I read it when I was 12 and really enjoyed it. Takes forever though, and the middle of it with the Italy stuff is a bit of a drag, but only for like 100 pages or so.
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@zachflipspages Is it readable? My fear with all classics is the prose being archaic and brutal to get through.
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My midway update of the The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas:
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@SandyofCthulhu Elrond should be the only human. He’s so wise and respected because he’s just some guy.
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Yes yes. No one wants to see Lord of the Rings remade.
But hear me out. MUPPETS.
One or two should be live people. Sam? Merry & Pippin? Who Do you think?
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@nick_kapur I guessed 1910. Candlesticks are a dead giveaway it’s older than you’d expect.
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Quick, guess which year this painting was painted?
(answer in the reply)
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@Will_Tanner_1 True but there’s some issue with the artificial fixing of the price of gold that impacts this comparison. It was fixed at $20.67 in order to keep the dollar stable.
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For context, in 1910, an ounce of gold was worth ~$20
So this house cost about 47 ounces of gold
So somewhere around $223,000 today
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele
The 1910, $938 Sears And Roebuck Co. Mail Order House.
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@LadyHalcon1986 @VirtueCrusader @bonchieredstate @varadmehta Plutarch uses it as “complicated” and Thucydides uses it as “various.” It’s usually described as many-turned (and that’s roughly how I’d translate it) but she’s not factually wrong for translating it as “complicated”
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@HoyaHusky @VirtueCrusader @bonchieredstate @varadmehta If you think ‘polytropos’ = “complicated” you’re just as illiterate as she is.
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The Odyssey pitch meeting:
The Room: “You’ve got the greatest mythology ever written in its original form. You’re going to use that, right?”
Christopher Nolan: “Nah, I’m gonna use this 2017 version written by a left-wing feminist that changed stuff to fit her politics.”
GIF
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@neontaster @varadmehta It’s gonna make a lot of money but be forgotten almost immediately
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@MattWalshBlog @NWordBiden The rise of progressivism in the 20th Century and the woman’s rights movement. I find it interesting how different the suffrage movement was from modern third and fourth wave crazy stuff.
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So far with Real History we have given you the true story of slavery, the American Indians, the Civil War, and the civil rights movement (part 2 coming in a few weeks). What historical episode would you like to see us tackle next?
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In terms of the literal words, yes you can. Words have multiple translated meanings that are grammatically and functionally correct.
Each of these are functionally correct translations of the opening verse, but they vary in tone because they prioritize different things. Wilson’s translation, interestingly enough, most similar to Fitzgerald in that they both use iambic pentameter to preserve the original pace of the text. In that sense, she and Fitzgerald are more “accurate” than Lawrence or Fagles.
I take issue with Wilson because she intentionally tones down the overall poetic connotation to make the entire epic seem less divine and fanciful, but to say she isn’t being technically correct in her translation is just incorrect.
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@HoyaHusky @bonchieredstate @varadmehta You can't translate correctly and translate to favor modern liberal beliefs. Which is it?
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@Andrew669631 And this graphic doesn’t even consider the cost of raising the sheep
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I found out that our Marxists friends don't understand surplus value or even info-graphics. You have to explain it to them as if they were kids. I took effort to make this.
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@bumbadum14 @JadeAtrophis Also isn’t this a good argument for nuclear? Like you’re a rural state that needs a ton of power. Why not fuel the entire thing with nuclear and reap all the economic benefits with virtually zero effect on the environment?
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It’s literally the anti nuclear movement all over again. Just massive fear mongering based on nothing.
The amount of heat generated on earth from the sun is 100 million atomic bombs. Totally useless metrics exclusively designed to scare people.
Pubity@pubity
Kevin O'Leary's proposed data center in Utah will require 9 Gigawatts of energy to function when fully built, double Utah's current energy usage for the entire state. It will dump around 23 atomic bombs worth of thermal load on the environment every day.
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@motivatedjoy @MaxNordau Dobbs didn’t do that. It returned the decision to the states, and many states still have it as a right.
And even if you mean it destroyed her federal right to choose, that was effectively done by Casey anyways and yet no one did anything about it in response.
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@MaxNordau Oh gosh, I don’t know, maybe because it striped her of her right to choose?
Are you okay?
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The Bible says Adam and Eve were the first people
It does not say they were the only people
In fact it even implies that they were not
Kelvin O johnson@_OKJ__
Only reasonable explanation to be honest.
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HoyaHusky retweetledi
Texas pregnancy deaths did NOT suddenly rise 56% because abortion was banned.
The statistic they’re throwing around measures year-over-year increases from 2019–2022… and Texas didn’t ban abortion until August 2022.
I’ll give you one guess what major event happened between 2019 and 2022 that might’ve impacted pregnancy-related deaths. Hint: it wasn’t the abortion ban.
GOP Ls@GOP__Ls
🚨 Pregnancy related deaths in Texas have jumped 56% since abortion was banned.
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@Aelthemplaer How is that flight path shorter/safer than just going across the Pacific Ocean?
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Poor guy has to wiggle his way between two global conflict zones
Colin McCarthy@US_Stormwatch
The longest flight in the world. Singapore Airlines Flight SQ23, from New York to Singapore. Over 9,500 miles and nearly 19 hours of flying.
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@kaloskatoa @xolotl9x @politicalmath @Tebow4802 Practically I’d agree but if I also had to overturn a long-established court case to do that, I’d prefer not to.
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@HoyaHusky @xolotl9x @politicalmath @Tebow4802 On the other side a referendum happening at all is way worse in terms of how many people will waste their time and work.
Way better for them to rule first
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. All the "smart" Democrats are saying that the court should have addressed this issue before the election.
But the Court says IN THE DECISION:
"Thoughout this litigation, the Commonwealth (ie the Democrats) has insisted that we cannot lawfully decide this case prior to the referendum"
Before the election, the Democrats *successfully* argued that "courts cannot interfere to stop any of the proceedings while this permanent law is in the process of being made"
The Democrats WON the argument that the Courts MUST allow the election to go ahead without ruling on the constitutionality of what they were voting on
Now they are complaining that the Court should have ruled on this case before the election. This is the most cut-and-dried case of intentional idiocy I've seen in at least a week and a half
Adam Parkhomenko@AdamParkhomenko
The best argument re: Virginia decision I’ve heard is this:
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This selection was not made by someone who reads the classics. Nor does anyone pretend to read most of these books.
Like why would I pretend to read Bel Canto or the Hobbit?
Summie's write@RuthSummie
Why will they do this at a bookstore!
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