Enki
Member
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2024
- Member Type
- Other
- Native Language
- French
- Home Country
- Taiwan
- Current Location
- Taiwan
Thank you all for the warm welcome and your responses.
I am aware of my limits in English. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are many sentences with double rhymes in the text I've submitted. Now, I can conclude that my translation doesn't work as I thought. Thank you for pointing that out.
@Tarheel, my 24-year-old son was born in Taiwan. This place is not great for diversity, but street crime does not exist. Yes, you can say "Indigenous." They make up about 3% of the Taiwanese population.
I wasn’t offended when I read “highfalutin.” Perhaps “scholarly” would be more appropriate. Hermeneutics and philology are symbolic words in this culture. PhD graduates are considered scholars by title, for example. I mostly read essays, and while I struggle to understand what these people say, I am not able to think as rigorously as they do.
@Skrej, I said “Cubist path to vacuity” because when I visited Figueres to see the Dalí Museum, I often heard people say: “Weird, I don’t get it,” just like with my text. “Aphorism” wasn’t the right word, you’re correct, but I don’t know what else to call it. Thank you for your analysis, I feel relieved now, even though my text is not 'wrong', the vocabulary might be too archaic to be understood easily.
Thank you all for the time you spent answering me.
I am aware of my limits in English. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are many sentences with double rhymes in the text I've submitted. Now, I can conclude that my translation doesn't work as I thought. Thank you for pointing that out.
@Tarheel, my 24-year-old son was born in Taiwan. This place is not great for diversity, but street crime does not exist. Yes, you can say "Indigenous." They make up about 3% of the Taiwanese population.
I wasn’t offended when I read “highfalutin.” Perhaps “scholarly” would be more appropriate. Hermeneutics and philology are symbolic words in this culture. PhD graduates are considered scholars by title, for example. I mostly read essays, and while I struggle to understand what these people say, I am not able to think as rigorously as they do.
@Skrej, I said “Cubist path to vacuity” because when I visited Figueres to see the Dalí Museum, I often heard people say: “Weird, I don’t get it,” just like with my text. “Aphorism” wasn’t the right word, you’re correct, but I don’t know what else to call it. Thank you for your analysis, I feel relieved now, even though my text is not 'wrong', the vocabulary might be too archaic to be understood easily.
Thank you all for the time you spent answering me.
