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Languages are only shifting sets of symbols � stable enough to make mutual discourse possible, but fluid enough to reflect changing social dynamics.
No one’s focused on how we’re all connected. We only think about how we suffer, individually.
‘That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.�
