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May 19, 2006

That's my Life

In the previous post I mentioned how a line in a Langston Hughes poem was changed in communist Poland from "And the slime in hotel spittoons: / Part of my life" to "The slime in hotel spittoons / That's my life."

As it happens, "That's my life," is a phrase that might reverberate with some today: Noam Chomsky uses it in discussing the Guardian's hatchet job on him.

Posted by hgrodsk at May 19, 2006 12:33 PM

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As a translator myself (Polish to English) I love examples like this, but it would be better with the Polish included as well. Ditto about the article excerpts too.

Posted by: michael farris at May 20, 2006 07:31 PM

In future I'll include the Polish for readers with both languages.

Posted by: Henry Grodsk at May 21, 2006 08:00 PM

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