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Also I am reading this for #disguisedasaboy queer/trans subtext and I gotta say, it delivers. ---"What about girls?" ---"Mahmud doesn't go see them either." ---"Every man is different," Uthman said in a soothing voice. ---"Not in that respect, Not if he's a man." ---Nasir merely smiled. "Perhaps in that respect I'm not a man. If you wish to avoid my company on that account, so be it."
— Mar 06, 2024 07:08AM
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It's interesting how learning Arabic has changed how I see some stylistic translation choices! "O my father" sounds super formal in English, at least in part because it's so polysyllablic, but when it's a literal translation of "ya abbi" and you know that ya is an indispensable part of speech, you can see how it could actually be just a normal and familiar way to talk.
— Mar 06, 2024 06:26AM
