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2021-09-22 16:02:00

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Languages as the 'Parallel Worlds'

“Language is almost the only window available to us into an unfamiliar world, <...> an opportunity to live several lives at once, moving from one parallel universe to another. What could be more exciting?”

Alexander Stesin, “Non-Western civilizations translated from African”, Moscow, 2019

«Язык — это чуть ли не единственное доступное нам окно в незнакомый мир, <...> возможность как бы прожить сразу несколько жизней, перемещаясь из одной параллельной вселенной в другую, — что может быть увлекательней?»

Александр Стесин, Незападные цивилизации в переводе с африканского, Москва, 2019

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Languages as the 'Parallel Worlds'

A very strange Etruscan inscription

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Learning basic Latin while reading Horace

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