« Let me share with you the problem of untranslatability.

At line 943 of this play Antigone utters her final words as a living person and exits to her death. She has just sung her own funeral dirge, unusual girl that she is, and the dirge ends with her summary statement of what she did wrong, the reason why she is condemned to die. [...]

“I was caught in an act of perfect piety.”

Her wording [eusebia] derives from Greek root seb-, which refers to the awe that radiates from gods to humans and is given back as worship.

Everything related to this root has fear in it. But eusebia is a fear that moves as devotion—a striving out of this world into another, and out of another world into this. A kind of permanent elsewhere located in human beings.

Now consider the English word “piety”. [...] Our pieties are more a matter of protocol than dread. And where eusebia implies ritual action, “piety” represents a mood rather than a pressure to act.

Nonetheless, there we are. I could not find, I do not know, a different or a better translation. The actor who speaks line 943 on stage will evoke the permanent elsewhere of our longing for the love of gods by drawing it up from her own voice and being. »

— Anne Carson, translator’s note to Sophocles’ Antigone

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Annie Ovenden (b.1945) - Charm Offensive. Oil.

🥿 Show: Osomatsu-san

🥿Comic by: uh idk I just found it on Pinterest 🙇🏻‍♂️

🥿Translation: Translation from DeepL and type setting by me (ik it's bad sorry (´ . .̫ . `))

🎀 Original:

Brick (2005)

Dir. Rian Johnson

Language: English

FRUITS AND BERRIES A-Z, PART 29 Date: 2021

Chinese (Pinyin) | English | Norwegian 苹果汁( píngguǒ zhī) | apple juice | eple juice 橙汁 ( chéngzhī ) | orange juice | appelsin juice 蔬果汁 (shūguǒ zhī) | juice | juice

Note: Recently played Deltarune 2 and Susie is my favorite character. Noelle and Lancer are pretty cool to. This drawing is part of a mini-fanart series, called Vegan Foods from A-Z, which lists different plant-based foods in English and Chinese. More Vegan Foods from A-Z: #veganfanartAZ. More Deltarune: #Deltarune

Morose

Adjective

[ muh-rohs ]

1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.

2. characterized by or expressing gloom.

Origin: First recorded in 1555–65; from Latin mōrōsus “fretful, peevish, willful,” equivalent to mōr- (stem of mōs ) “will, inclination” + -ōsus adjective suffix (see -ose1)

“Lee McQueen could see beauty in the morose and even the morbid.” - MICHELLE OBAMA IN ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: LADY IN RED | ROBIN GIVHAN | JANUARY 19, 2011 | DAILY BEAST

Eye Miniature, English School, 1825

always there when i need them.

For the time being I will admit my defeat again, I will accept that I can’t pretend we will ever be together

— Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

Saw a conlang video about how language is meant to ease communication not make it harder and y'know he's absolutely right.

"Whom" has no rights. It's dumb and "Who" is already replacing it. Whom is dead. Long live Who.

Becky Munting - Rook. Oil and gold leaf.

23-09-2021

It's been quite a while since I posted. I have a few asks that I have to answer and I will do them soon. I have been so busy lately since I have exams coming up in less than a month :(

I usually listen to music while I study so drop some song recs???

so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

Bestie English - best friend Bestie Czech - beast, brute, monster

Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied 

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful

Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

Sotto Voce

Adverb

[ sot-oh -voh-chee; Italian sawt-taw -vaw-che ]

1. in a low, soft voice so as not to be overheard.

Origin: First recorded in 1730–40; from Italian adverb sottovoce, “in a low voice,” from sotto “under” + voce “voice” (see origin at voice)

“Not the first time a man has obtained rank through his ‘baggage,’” observed one of the officers, sotto voce.“ - CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT, NEWTON FORSTER

“A lot of native speakers are happy that English has become the world’s global language. They feel they don’t have to spend time learning another language,” says Chong.

“But… often you have a boardroom full of people from different countries communicating in English and all understanding each other and then suddenly the American or Brit walks into the room and nobody can understand them.”

The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language. Anglophones, on the other hand, often talk too fast for others to follow, and use jokes, slang and references specific to their own culture, says Chong. In emails, they use baffling abbreviations such as ‘OOO’, instead of simply saying that they will be out of the office.

“The native English speaker… is the only one who might not feel the need to accommodate or adapt to the others,” she adds.