mare’s Reviews > Babel > Status Update

“translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes”

“or that you’re hoarding knowledge that should be freely shared… because if language is free, if knowledge is free, then why are all the grammaticas under lock and key in the tower” SO TRUE SO REAL

“god split mankind apart… and i wonder if the the purpose of translation is to bring mankind back together” ROBIN MY BOY… he is still so idealistic i am gonna sob

“such is the project of empire, and why we translate at the pleasure of the crown” BRITISH EMPIRE WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU…

“you, like psammetichus’s boys, are the tongues that will speak this vision of global harmony into being” acting all innocent like this isn’t an imperial mission taking advantage of youths from the colonies and as if psammetichus’s boys weren’t slaves sent to do the bidding of the king

“you must overcome the pollution of your blood” bro you study their language and their culture but do not really see them as people that’s crazy… bro… this is the real problem with yt academia