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Queria dizer que eu tô assim 🤯 Obrigada por toda essa curadoria e análise, Tutu. Tudo sobre linguagem me fascina e vc trouxe muitas referências espetaculares. Agora, vou ler mais uma vez pra absorver todas essas informações hahaha
This is awesome! As a linguist and literature researcher, I have to deal a lot with that kind of question involving languages, translations and the losses of meaning in the way. Some experts say that if you're not reading/listening something in its original language, you're not getting all the meanings it can have. We developed so many language figures and strategys through the eras that some languages are really unique, they have unique sounds, words and syntax that can not be completely translated.
Lately I read a short story about some utopic future in brazilian's northeast where people managed to translate the vibrations emited from cajueiros to human words. In the story, the trees don't talk much beyond things like "sun" or "water", and it makes me think how distant may be the "language" of plants that we could only understand this little part (the tendency of this text is called Sertãopunk, a new way to represent Northeast, you should read about it). It can be applyed to whales, or aliens (I'm a huge fan of Arrival too).
We live in a world made of language, and people should be more aware of it. When you start to comprehend the power of the language, you can undestand more about the world, the people and about our own self. Thanks for bringing it to your text.
Queria dizer que eu tô assim 🤯 Obrigada por toda essa curadoria e análise, Tutu. Tudo sobre linguagem me fascina e vc trouxe muitas referências espetaculares. Agora, vou ler mais uma vez pra absorver todas essas informações hahaha
This is awesome! As a linguist and literature researcher, I have to deal a lot with that kind of question involving languages, translations and the losses of meaning in the way. Some experts say that if you're not reading/listening something in its original language, you're not getting all the meanings it can have. We developed so many language figures and strategys through the eras that some languages are really unique, they have unique sounds, words and syntax that can not be completely translated.
Lately I read a short story about some utopic future in brazilian's northeast where people managed to translate the vibrations emited from cajueiros to human words. In the story, the trees don't talk much beyond things like "sun" or "water", and it makes me think how distant may be the "language" of plants that we could only understand this little part (the tendency of this text is called Sertãopunk, a new way to represent Northeast, you should read about it). It can be applyed to whales, or aliens (I'm a huge fan of Arrival too).
We live in a world made of language, and people should be more aware of it. When you start to comprehend the power of the language, you can undestand more about the world, the people and about our own self. Thanks for bringing it to your text.