I'm Drea. I fangirl, therefore I am. I also promise to stop misquoting Descartes. My tags are epic, my fandoms are small, there be half-naked wrestling dudes in these posts. Your local English teacher who abuses the thesaurus for fun and profit. Old enough to be your mom, now get off my lawn.
“The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture’s patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language’s rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people’s gestures and movements.”
this site definitely doesn’t allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.
