Pullquote: "Translators differ on the issue of chortling."

Well of course they do! 🙃

Fun article for your weekend reading: "Slaying the Chinese Jabberwock: The Limitations of Translating Nonsense" by Alan Levinovitz.

thebeliever.net/slaying-the-ch

#translation #lewiscarroll #jabberwock #chortling

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Ben Deutsch · @5RhythmsBen
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Though I wait till the whiffles,
I'll struggle to find rhymes for "sniffles'.
But I've had a good look
In a reference book
And the young of the are griffles.

#nonsense #limerick #MastoPrompt #sniffles #jabberwock #gryphon

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