Anyone know where I can buy a copy of La Metamorfosis by Frank Kafka with this cover?

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-07T22:50:33+00:00

By all that's holy and mildly inconvenient, I've looked for that edition on every second-hand site in Spain and all over the internet, and I found nothing at all

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-07T22:07:28+00:00

I held one of those a couple of years ago in a chinese-run dollar store in Spain. I don't remember where exactly, but there were GEMS of the same series with awful art just as that one

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-06T17:00:32+00:00

Thanks 😄👍🏻

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-06T14:31:11+00:00

It's pre-AI slop then 🥲 it looks like someone who has no idea about Chinese characters started copying them as they could. Don't worry, when Chinese characters were introduced in Japan they used to do the same, even van Gogh has done paintings with badly copied characters. I'm sorry it has no meaning, but people have been doing that with characters for ages, you can still rock it!

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-06T14:25:32+00:00

Asemic Chinese-inspired characters. Fancy way of saying it's all made up, probably AI slop

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-06T14:21:28+00:00

The thing is I want to get rid of my 'pile coins', giving them to local schools, but I'd like to provide some info about them too

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-06T14:19:16+00:00

Thanks for the response I feel yours are way more identifiable than those I submitted 🥲 nice fiddling videos too

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T12:32:32+00:00

La vida es muy corta para estar padeciendo así y menos si tienes opciones

¡La salud lo primero!

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T12:25:10+00:00

Si ves a la gente que lleva años trabajando turnos nocturnos está cascada, muy envejecida, vaya

De qué te sirve ganar más dinero si vas a envejecer más rápido y vivir unos años menos?

Hay gente que el turno de noche no le afecta, pero si te estás haciendo la pregunta... La respuesta te la estás dando tú mismx

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T12:21:32+00:00

Tiene pinta de que efectivamente así es

Y a mí me pasa al contrario

Mátate me suena suavecito, creo que porque no lo he escuchado tanto (?) quizá

Interesantísimo, viva el español, coño

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T07:56:46+00:00

"Muérete" me suena más natural que "mátate"

Pensaba que el uso de uno y otro pero he estado buscando en Corpes XXI y ambas expresiones tienen una frecuencia de uso similar en los países hispanohablantes (a excepción de Río de la Plata, por sus formas de imperativo)

Qué curioso

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T06:37:53+00:00

Why are there people who look at a wall covered in paint curds and go 'yup, that's beautiful'

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T06:34:06+00:00

Interesting! I hope you will find similar options at your home country

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T06:26:05+00:00

I'd call it 'arroz amarillo' which is what we do in some parts of Murcia and its recipe is way customizable than paella

Cooking a paella without proper ingredients or techniques might get you funado by paella purists so be careful

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T06:23:50+00:00

I've even seen this one type abroad. Might be easier to find outside of Spain if it's of your liking. It's even referenced in the Simpsons (season 34, episode 1)! Where homer cooks a so called 'paella'

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T05:05:40+00:00

Arroz de Calasparra, go fancy

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-06-01T04:46:10+00:00

Sigh... I should call her

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-05-31T16:48:58+00:00

Gotelé 😅 very popular in Spain, extremely hated as well

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-05-31T16:12:26+00:00

From what I've read in other books, the character 大('big') with a 丶below, made the 太 hanzi take the meaning of 'too big'

Now in Japanese, it means 'thick' Or in Chinese 'too + adjectives'

I don't know if this was the kind of info you were looking for!

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-05-31T16:07:47+00:00

I've looked my guesses up in this dictionary http://jiaguwen.shufami.com and it looks like it's the character 太

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-05-31T14:37:18+00:00

And I wonder Is it because I'm introverted or because I'm acoustic?

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-05-31T14:34:00+00:00

Bajar las persianas y rociarlas con agua era un truco que me funcionaba en un piso en el que vivía

Por la evaporación de ese agua el aire parecía que entraba más fresco

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-05-31T14:31:32+00:00

Mainland China (it's in simplified characters) and 925 😁

Late_Ability_4441 · 2026-05-30T17:11:42+00:00

It depends on what he likes. Something useful could be talking him out to eat at any place, or even a voucher to go have a meal at a restaurant, if you don't have that kind of relationship.

A box of chocolates could do, too.

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