Re:Doing Your Best and Tips on Continuous Improvement
by alexophile on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @01:20PM
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For pro-move bonus points, you can combine this with "2. Learn one or two words of a new (or old) language, translate a phrase".
During a slow period at work, I started doing this with Pablo Neruda. It was a strange experience: I could translate most of the words fairly accurately but, even after looking up the missing pieces, sometimes they made no sense. That's when I realized how much space there really is between what a word means and the potential it has in the hands of a master - something I think we take for granted in our native tongues.
During a slow period at work, I started doing this with Pablo Neruda. It was a strange experience: I could translate most of the words fairly accurately but, even after looking up the missing pieces, sometimes they made no sense. That's when I realized how much space there really is between what a word means and the potential it has in the hands of a master - something I think we take for granted in our native tongues.