Heden! Fia Tsead Bruinja waard ik wiisd op de side fan Klaas van der Hoek, mei û.o nijsgjirrige oersettingen fan Emily Dickinson. Marrr ek tige de muoite wurdich is de rubryk ‘Hifke foar it Fûns’. En it Fûns is dan fansels it Nederlands Letterenfonds. Moai dat soks no online stiet!
Lês fierder by Cornelis van der Wal… Lês fierder
One day at an end-of-semester gathering, a student of mine said, “where are all the bohemians?” He was thinking of Dylan Thomas stumbling out of the White Horse Tavern, Mary McCarthy sleeping with three men in one day, and Norman Mailer getting into brawls.
Lês fierder by Slate Magazine
Joens fief maaje wie-uh der sammar un fljermoeske boppe uus strutte. Ik tocht: ,,Wat is frijhijt un riek bussit. San dierke kin olle kònten uut, soender dot immen sait dot soks net mai”.
Os jo no tinke: ,,Wat is dit voar un briek taaltsje”, don ha jo un punt, mar os jo ut loet-op lèèze folt it wol wot ta.
Lês fierder by Hans Veenstra op de Jouster Courant
Jo wite wol hoe’t jo dy o yn pop útsprekke moatte? It is oan de stavering min te sjen mar ik wit tafallich dat it mei o fan top moat en net mei de o fan tobbe. Se soene der ris wat oan dwaan moatte mei in streekje of in dakje of sokssawat.
Lês fierder by Daam… Lês fierder
Der wurdt de lêste wiken in protte skreaun oer twa Fryske taalsaken: de stavering en de taalnoarm. Oant no draait it foaral om de stavering, mar de plannen mei de taalnoarm binne stikken yngripender. Dêr behein ik my hjir ta.
Lês fierder by Abe de Vries… Lês fierder
You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!
It’s an odd little speech. But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words to hunter-gatherers in Asia in any one of hundreds of modern languages, there is a chance they would understand at least some of what you were saying.
Lês fierder by The Washington Post… Lês fierder