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'That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.’ 😭😭

Oh those white people have small hearts who can only feel for themselves.
- Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince

Nice comes to us by way of the Old French nice (‘weak, clumsy, silly’), from the Latin nescius (‘ignorant, not knowing’)

“They dug through languages like they were mines, searching for valuable veins of common heritage and distorted mean. It changed the way they spoke. Constantly they trailed off in the middle of sentences. They could not utter even common phrases and aphorisms without pausing to wonder where those words came from.”
As a former linguistics student, this feels accurate. 😁