#phrase

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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.


Marilyn Hacker


#how #line #look #obliged #particular

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.


Lauren Willig


#humor #mystery #paraphrased #humor

A local phrase book, entitled Speak in Korean, has the following handy expressions. In the section 'On the Way to the Hotel': 'Let's Mutilate US Imperialism!' In the section 'Word Order': 'Yankees are wolves in human shape—Yankees / in human shape / wolves / are.' In the section 'Farewell Talk': 'The US Imperialists are the sworn enemy of the Korean people.' Not that the book is all like this—the section 'At the Hospital' has the term solsaga ('I have loose bowels'), and the section 'Our Foreign Friends Say' contains the Korean for 'President Kim Il Sung is the sun of mankind.' I wanted a spare copy of this phrase book to give to a friend, but found it was hard to come by. Perhaps this was a sign of a new rapprochement with the United States, or perhaps it was because, on page 46, in the section on the seasons, appear the words: haemada pungnyoni dumnida ('We have a bumper harvest every year').


Christopher Hitchens


#famine #imperialism #kim-il-sung #korean-language #language

Nothing matters when it comes to love L)


no idea :S


#love

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.


Charles Churchill


#daily #digest #fit #know #little

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.


Mason Cooley


#invented #person #phrase #poor

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.


Alan Price


#chords #guitar #i #lot #more

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.


Joe Strummer


#arabic #began #book #british #cause

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.


Alan Price


#failure #fathers #orphan #phrase #thousand

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.


Jef I. Richards


#children #coined #congress #future #our