http://banalasanything.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/unturned-mill-quid/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:41:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://banalasanything.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/unturned-mill-quid/#comment-2 kickknees Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:44:21 +0000 http://banalasanything.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/unturned-mill-quid/#comment-2 re: your introduction, i think we are all (monoglots included) privy to the joke of translation, and the joke's on us. apart from the reality of each coming to language being a translation - though of course, not from one to one - there are many englishes, and you shift between the registers through each context: talking to helen and susan at ames, talking dirty to smith, talking to your nan, talking to an irregular acquaintance, talking to your cat, talking to your love. i suppose one might argue that each of these registers is like a dialect, but as bob perelman said (quoting someone i think): the only difference between a dialect and a language is that a language has a army behind it. re: your introduction, i think we are all (monoglots included) privy to the joke of translation, and the joke’s on us. apart from the reality of each coming to language being a translation
- though of course, not from one to one – there are many englishes, and you shift between the registers through each context: talking to helen and susan at ames, talking dirty to smith, talking to your nan, talking to an irregular acquaintance, talking to your cat, talking to your love. i suppose one might argue that each of these registers is like a dialect, but as bob perelman said (quoting someone i think): the only difference between a dialect and a language is that a language has a army behind it.

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