pickWonderful look at language communities in New York.
Recommended!
Amiable This looks really interesting 1d
squirrelbrain I loved this one too! 1d
BookishMarginalia 😍 This looks right up my alley! 1d
pickWonderful look at language communities in New York.
Recommended!
If writing is honey in terms of sweetness, then writing one's own language is ambrosia. If writing is sauce, then writing one's own language is the seasoning [salt]. If reading is work, then reading one's own language is its respite. (Translated [from N'ko] by Coleman Donaldson.)
"The idea of the shtetl was formed by Yiddish literature,' says Boris, "by writers like Peretz and Sholem Aleichem ... living in the big cities." Whether transmuted through a Chagall painting or a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof, the shtetl has come to stand in for the whole vanished world of traditional Jewish life Eastern Europe, shrunk down to the scale of a folklorized village....
With all her languages, Rasmina is almost an unofficial, unpaid interpreter [in Seke]...
"It's what a lot of immigrants go through," she says...
...these things add up. She draws the line when aunties, like aunties everywhere, try to follow their kids onto social media: "The social media is getting to them. They're very addicted now. Every day somebody's mom is like, 'Make me Instagram, make me TikTok,' and I say, 'No thank you!"
"Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey," said the linguist and polyglot Jakobson. In other words: it's possible to say anything in any language, but each language's grammar requires speakers to mark out certain parts of reality and not others, however unconsciously. This is the essence of what makes linguistics fascinating and revealing.
pickI‘ve wanted to read this for a long time so it was a great one for my #10BeforeTheEnd list this year. I really enjoyed it - three somewhat connected novellas set in NYC, revolving around investigative detectives and bizarre situations. I‘m not sure I could choose a favorite - they worked really well together and I never had any idea what was going to happen on the next page.
pickThis was fun. I love the setting and it was interesting to hear about Merry‘s old life coming to Rudolph.
When someone else is enthusiastic about a book:
But you have read it recently and are just "meh"....?
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from Annie Hall to
Annie Banks‘ mom, we will
miss you Ms. Keaton.
Always loved her, she was a great actress and had such a beautiful smile. She reminds me of my aunt. 💔
#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #DianeKeaton
Many were moved by the dream of creating or recreating a radical Jewish culture that was leftist, diasporic, and queer.
p. 223
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