Little things

[wildeabandon]

- Yesterday I made avocado salsa, and the avocados were in that almost unattainable spot of perfect ripeness which lasts for approximately five minutes. I am pleased with past me for noticing that they were getting close to that state a few days previously and putting them in the fridge so they didn't go past it.

- I sent the next page of my Syriac translation to the professor and got back some comments, and I feel like I'm starting to move beyond just decoding the grammar and vocabulary, to noticing wordplay and making accurate guesses about things that are implied but not stated. Levelling up ftw.

- I have a ticket to see Tristan and Isolde in a few weeks. This might not quite make up for having to miss the same opera company's Ring Cycle earlier in the year due to a Wrong Country Error, but it will go some way.

Comments

[radiantfracture]

I sent the next page of my Syriac translation

That is so cool. Are you able to describe any of the wordplay, or would it be too complicated for a non-reader?

[wildeabandon]

So there was a sentence that would most literally be translated "They stripped him of the coat that he was wearing, and nakedly they threw him into the well."

That doesn't quite work in English because we tend to use nakedly with adjectives rather than verbs, so I switched it to 'unashamedly'. But although the adverb is clearly referring to the action of the brothers rather than to Joseph, I think it's also drawing attention to the fact that they've literally just taken his clothing away, and that gets lost with the substitution.

[radiantfracture]

Thank you! A very satisfying problem and solution. I like translation in general and am interested in Syriac for reasons of novel.