Untranslatable

“kalsarikannit: (noun) Getting drunk at home, in a hotel room or other comparable location in your underwear, with no intention of heading out to a bar later on.”
“kalsarikannit: (noun) Getting drunk at home, in a hotel room or other comparable location in your underwear, with no intention of heading out to a bar later on.”
“Hedda Sharapan, one of the staff members at Fred Rogers’s production company, Family Communications, Inc., recalls Rogers once halted taping of a show when a cast member told the puppet Henrietta Pussycat not to cry; he interrupted shooting to make it clear that his show would never suggest to children that they not cry.”
Earlier this week, I learned that he’s officially selling his steganography cards under the name Clover Lover. So now you can get a few versions of your own!
While this blog isn’t a terribly popular one, it serves as a place for me to record things. And I wanted to share my memories of Ms. Staffieri, and to have those memories last a little longer than social media allows. Because she was pretty darn awesome.
There’s so much packed into this thing, it’s absolutely mind-boggling: natural language, symbolic references, visualizations built-in. It’s a long video, but very worthwhile watching.
“In 1981 Weaver finished a draft version of [Umberto] Eco’s 500-page novel The Name of the Rose, then prepared a long list of queries. In the course of wine-fueled restaurant lunches, he and Eco spread pages of draft manuscripts over the table and worked on translations until dusk. Eventually Weaver was able to render the polyglot braggadocio of Eco’s prose into impeccable and nuanced English.”
For those not familiar with the show, the Dothraki are “a copper-skinned race of warlike nomads,” highly skilled in combat and riding horses. For the TV adaptation of the novel, they decided to contact David J. Peterson at the Language Creation Society, and had him literally construct the language from the ground up.
I learned a new word today at work, through a logo style guide of all places. The word is paraprosdokian – a sentence or phrase that ends in a certain way, causing the reader/listener to re-interpret the beginning of the sentence/phrase.