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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
Maybe you should become a Philologist! [nudge] I've had a bit of a hankering for it but I'm horrible with languages... *sigh*
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Truthfully, I'm an utter schmendrick when it comes to most other languages, too. I have to read Mallarmé, Baudelaire and even Gide with a bilingual edition (something that desperately needs to be implemented in e-Readers once fold-out screens become the norm).
Perhaps I should have been a philologist because I find it incredibly fun and
bristling to look at verse in English that's been translated into other languages -- particularly technophiliac verse translated into Greek and German, with its portmanteau vocabulary (my phrase
insect seas became a single word in a translation of my poem "
Nerventerminals"). I have no idea how to read Japanese translations of my poems, but I love trying.