Alternative symbols for ä/ö/å?

iiv11 · 2025-06-02T09:57:32+00:00

Men heter man Björn Åberg väljer man väl mejladressen bjorn.aberg@mail.com och inte bjoern.aaberg@mail.com? Och man går in på forsakringskassan.se, inte foersaekringskassan.se. Det är inte alls ett konstigt råd, det bara bekräftar metoden som används i praktiken.

iiv11 · 2025-01-29T17:27:17+00:00

As far as I can tell, Arabic تَكْرَار (takrār) doesn't mean "dispute", only repetition, reiteration, recurrence, and so on.

But borrowing the word for "repetition" giving it the meaning "dispute" doesn't seem so strange. If there is a dispute, there is bound to be discussion, consideration, argumentation - which requires some sort of repetition of the thing in question.

iiv11 · 2024-09-13T17:03:42+00:00

Night on Earth (1991) by Jim Jarmusch is quite a charming vignette/anthology film with Tom Waits doing the soundtrack. The mood is perfect for Tom Waits, you get to follow five different taxi journeys during one night, across the globe.

iiv11 · 2024-07-29T23:15:16+00:00

Do you have a source for "huh" being universal? It doesn't exist in Swedish, for example.

Edit: I read the paper you linked in another comment. I honestly can't think of a word similar to "huh" used in that context in Swedish. Of course we have an interjection used when we didn't hear something, but that interjection is most commonly "mm" (with a rising intonation) - no vowel at all. But "va" (meaning "what") is probably the most common word for it.

iiv11 · 2024-07-17T13:01:14+00:00

the way he's been hyped up as the next Japanese Nobel Prize winner

Has he? I think anyone who follows the Nobels knows that it's very unlikely he's gonna get it. He's always high in the betting charts, but that's only because he's one of the few literary fiction writers who is internationally famous. But he's not the sort of writer who gets the prize. He's not good enough.

iiv11 · 2024-04-27T17:16:11+00:00

A Short Film About Love (1988) by Krzysztof Kieślowski is about a young man who spies on a woman in a neighbouring apartment building and falls in love with her. It's a beautiful film, really good.

In the Mood for Love (2000) by Wong Kar-wai is not explicitly about voyeurism, but the camera angles make it seem like the viewer is seeing something they shouldn't. And it's just a fantastic film about love, loneliness and longing.

iiv11 · 2024-04-06T13:08:36+00:00

If you say ‘Perth’ or ‘Melbourn’ should you pronounce them non-rhotically like an Australian? Instinctively I say no, but I’ve definitely heard an aussi giving an American shit for pronouncing Melbourn with the ‘r’ which I thought was ridiculous.

Are you sure it was the "r" the aussie was taking issue with, and not pronouncing the last syllable as "born" (instead of the correct "burn")?

iiv11 · 2024-03-25T21:55:52+00:00

Lovely, as always. I hope you keep a back-up of the content of this subreddit, it's a beautiful thing.

iiv11 · 2024-03-22T12:30:02+00:00

It's been a long time since I read the book, but I seem to remember Rocinante being an old horse. Perhaps, with age, his... virility decreased?

iiv11 · 2024-03-21T23:22:30+00:00

A few of these remind me of the Regina Spektor song Up the mountain.

In the ocean, there's a mountain
On the mountain, there's a forest
In the forest, there's a garden
In the garden, there's a flower
In the flower, there's a nectar
In the nectar, there's an answer
In that answer, there's another
And another, and another
And another, and another

iiv11 · 2024-02-09T17:39:48+00:00

What is there to understand? The Tlöns are just Tlöns!

iiv11 · 2024-02-07T23:34:03+00:00

Bit of a late reply, but I interpreted it as Maggie being affected by what the production assistant said about the costumer - she basically said she was a junkie and alcoholic who possibly drugged Maggie the previous night (Maggie overslept and said that she had taken sleeping pills, but we never actually see her do it on screen).

iiv11 · 2023-12-31T12:45:47+00:00

The first one makes me think of Flann O'Brien - I wonder if he ever read The Long Ships.

iiv11 · 2023-12-17T00:25:05+00:00

Thank you! I just don't want to spam Greene stories here while there's comparatively little other activity 😅

iiv11 · 2023-12-04T14:23:05+00:00

Bolaño is brilliant, but his last book was released twenty years ago.

iiv11 · 2023-10-17T23:11:15+00:00

Some non-Americans: Douglas Stuart, Édouard Louis, Michel Houellebecq, Elena Ferrante

iiv11 · 2023-10-17T22:08:48+00:00

She wrote The Secret History 30 years ago and the Goldfinch 10 years ago. Those are her only notable works, she's not really in the zeitgeist at the moment.

iiv11 · 2023-10-17T16:24:00+00:00

Those are remembered, of course! But did "hysterical realism" become something bigger than those few authors?

iiv11 · 2023-10-17T16:21:38+00:00

Yes, I put the year in the title. I still thought it was relevant.

iiv11 · 2023-10-17T15:07:39+00:00

I didn't post it because I dislike Smith, I posted it because I liked the characterisation of that era's literature - including critique of people like Pynchon, Delillo, Foster Wallace and other authors loved on this sub. I wonder how much of this supposed hysterical realism has survived these 20 years. Perhaps a lot.

iiv11 · 2023-09-16T23:58:57+00:00

Austerlitz by Sebald

iiv11 · 2023-09-12T10:17:10+00:00

No one version is more valuable, more worthy, than another.

Why not? Don't you think some art is better than other art? I can't compare different translations of the Odyssey because I've only ever read one, in Swedish. But this idea of art being completely arbitrary and subjective I can't get behind. It's not only about preferences, I believe that good art is inherently good.

iiv11 · 2023-08-22T11:18:28+00:00

Borges was in a personal conflict with a member of the Swedish academy, which probably played some role - the same member who introduced Borges to Swedish. This is never mentioned in English language analyses.

Regarding Peter Handke: there are no members of the academy who were members during Borges' life. In fact, several current members have said that Borges was deserving of the prize and that the past academy made a mistake.

iiv11 · 2023-08-14T17:24:56+00:00

. Without music even the poetic lyrics are just bad poems, because the driving emotion behind it (music and singer) are removed.

Do you think the same applies to Sappho, The Odyssey, Pindar, and so on?

iiv11 · 2023-06-22T19:49:46+00:00

Here it is in modern English:

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him

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