A Quote by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.
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If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you
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Yes, this a disease, and men suffering with depression need help. It takes the right person to break through to someone who has been brave enough to reach out.
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I'm very inspired by personal transformation. I'm so inspired when people who have been living with or struggling against significant obstacles break through and reach the other side of that challenge victoriously.
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.
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