I recently learned about the debacle that was the Swedish translation of Tolkien, and it got me wondering: “are there books that can only exist within a masterful use of the authors native tongue?”.

  • @GinAndJuche
    hexagon
    hexbear
    13
    5 months ago

    The real tragedy of being Italian is they’ll never understand the pagliacci pizza knock knock joke in the original Brooklyn accented English