Starbucks workers in Buffalo have voted to unionize, a first for the coffee franchiseīloomberg Businessweek has posted its annual “jealousy list” of the editors’ favorite articles that weren’t published by Bloomberg or BW. Masayuki Uemura, lead architect of the Famicom and Super Famicom systems (in the US, the Nintendo and Super Nintendo) has passed away, age 78 Terence Malick’s documentary Voyage of Time is coming to digital streaming in 4K next week: I love Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas. I did not know that Anne Carson wrote a graphic novel this year (an adaptation of Euripides’s play Trojan Women, with artist Rosana Bruno) Davis’s method might be impractical for learning a second language, but for a gifted language learner, it seems to put a premium on finding those connections. But what remains exciting are the little associations you learn, the conjunctions of phrasing, the possible substitutions of one term for another, the way a question and an answer can reflect the same structure - a map of phonemic possibilities that is also a way of seeing the world.
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I’m (re)learning Italian right now - I sort of learned it backwards the first time, starting with Dante and Petrarch and only now learning how to ask where the bathroom is ( dove el gabinetto?) and the difference between coat ( cappotto) and hat ( cappello).
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Finally, Huck wraps a dry hoja around something to make a cigarette, and Davis realizes that only one meaning would work as well with paper as with a tree or a cigarette: “leaf.” Of course, it would be possible to solve the hoja enigma in two seconds by plugging the word into Google, but that would destroy the fun. Hoja initially stumps her when it pops up in the phrase hoja de papel - “hoja of paper.” Later in the book, it occurs in the context of a tree. In other cases she inductively reasons the meaning of a word after noticing it in different contexts. Words like “plan” are the same in English and Spanish. To improve her Spanish, she digs into a copy of “Las Aventuras de Tom Sawyer.” In some cases the decryption proves easy. In her new collection, Essays 2, she describes her unusual technique:Īlthough she learned German by immersion, Davis’s preferred method of language acquisition is quite different, and, to an outside observer, demonically challenging: She finds a book published in a language that she does not fully or even partially understand and then tries to figure out what it means.
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My favorite contemporary writer is probably Lydia Davis, in no small part because I don’t know if anyone takes a finer care for the language they use, as a writer and reader.ĭavis also does double duty as both an original writer of fiction and essays, and a translator of other people’s writings, in multiple languages.