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Ursula von der Leyen loves cameras, and excels in the art of storytelling - and that's what we should expect for her. She delivers her speech in three languages with equal ease. She presents herself as a European, who was born and raised in Brussels: "I was born in Brussels as a European, finding out only later that I am German with roots in Lower Saxony. And that is why there is only one option for me: to unite and strengthen Europe." 

there are probably not many leading European politicians who have experienced Europe, in such a way that this daughter of a senior European civil servant who studied at the London School of Economics did. Nor are there many who have an equivalent international experience, since she lived four years in California from 1992 to 1996. Expatriates know that it is only by leaving Europe that we begin to understand how much it exists. "The world is calling for more Europe. The world needs more Europe.": this is a woman who knows what she is talking about.

https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/ursula-von-der-leyen-finally-truly-political-commission

 

 

Категория: Linguistics | Просмотров: 121 | Добавил: Voats | Дата: 01.06.2022 | Комментарии (0)

tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles.

Всё к лучшему в этом лучшем из миров

The title Brave New World derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I.
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206
Shakespeare's use of the phrase is intended ironically, as the speaker is failing to recognise the evil nature of the island's visitors because of her innocence. Indeed, the next speaker replies to Miranda's innocent observation with the statement "They are new to thee..."
Translations of the title often allude to similar expressions used in domestic works of literature: the French edition of the work is entitled Le Meilleur des mondes (The Best of All Worlds), an allusion to an expression used by the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and satirised in Candide, Ou l'Optimisme by Voltaire (1759). The first Standard Chinese translation, done by novelist Lily Hsueh and Aaron Jen-wang Hsueh in 1974, is entitled "美麗新世界" (Pinyin: Měilì Xīn Shìjiè, literally "Beautiful New World").
 

Категория: Translatology | Просмотров: 133 | Добавил: Voats | Дата: 31.05.2022 | Комментарии (0)

Historians were left blushing when they deciphered ancient Roman graffiti carved into stone near Hadrian's Wall.

The insulting comment, inscribed more than 1,700 years ago, was unearthed near Hexham, Northumberland.

It featured words written about someone called Secundinus beside an image of a phallus - typically used as a Roman symbol of good luck or fertility.

However, experts believe its true meaning would have left the subject "less than amused".

Roman epigraphy specialists recognised the message, found at the Roman site of Vindolanda, as a mangled version of the words Secundinus cacator, which translates into English as "Secundinus, the shitter".

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Probably the most bizarre use of whataboutism in Australia over recent years involved conservative federal House of Representatives member Bob Katter, when in 2017 he was asked about marriage equality: an issue that he’s opposed to.

The MP initially responded to reporters’ questions about the same-sex marriage debate with “people are entitled to their sexual proclivities”. And he then employed a bit of whataboutism when he changed the topic to an issue he found more pressing.

“But, I ain’t spending any time with it,” he continued in relation to the marriage equality debate. “Because in the meantime, each three months a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in north Queensland.”

In actuality figures reveal that around one person a year has been killed by a croc dating back to 1985.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=88b95c63-6f35-412a-9786-d99c13c9e359

 

Категория: Stylistics | Просмотров: 128 | Добавил: Voats | Дата: 23.05.2022 | Комментарии (0)

Indeed, pro-Russian media have said the leaders of the Azov Battalion are yet to surrender.

This controversial unit of the Ukrainian armed forces is a bête noir of the Russians, featuring prominently in Kremlin propaganda. Russia accuses them of being Nazis, something Ukraine has always denied.

Meanwhile, some Russian law makers have said they should be treated as war criminals rather than prisoners of war. Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the Duma, Russia’s Parliament, said "Nazi criminals should not be exchanged".

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-61461805

Azov Battalion is reportedly a unit of the NGU, backed by Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs. Despite its possible official background in Ukraine, Azov Battalion is known in the West for its extreme neo-Nazi stance, and for its suspected involvement in a number of terrorist attacks and separatist incitement incidents in various countries and regions, including the riots in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2019.

Ironically, despite being widely regarded as a threat to world security and an enemy of human civilization, Azov Battalion was found to have ties not only with the Ukraine authorities but also with the US. 

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1254217.shtml

Категория: Linguistics | Просмотров: 125 | Добавил: Voats | Дата: 21.05.2022 | Комментарии (0)

 JAKE LAHUT,KAYLA EPSTEIN,DARREN SAMUELSOHN  May 4, 2022 3:57 PM

Pope Francis recently held a Zoom call with Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill.

Francis said he told the pro-war church leader to avoid becoming "Putin's altar boy."Kirill's outspoken support of Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine has angered other church leaders.

https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/pope-francis-says-he-warned-the-head-of-the-russian-church-not-to-become-putins-altar/kpfb5ve

POPE FRANCIS HAS NEVER USED "PUTIN'S ALTAR BOY" PHRASE IN HIS CONVERSATION WITH PATRIARCH KIRILL: 

On March 16, 2022, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia had an online talk with Pope Francis of Rome, which was focused on the situation in Ukraine.

Metropolitan Hilarion noted that after the video meeting, the press service of the Holy See quite correctly presented the information about the talk between the Primates of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

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Категория: Stylistics | Просмотров: 120 | Добавил: Voats | Дата: 17.05.2022 | Комментарии (0)

Stylistic indicator of whataboutism often takes the form of “it has nothing to do with”:

Member of the opposition Harmony party Igors Pimenovs said that the monument has nothing to do with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it represents only the victory of the Soviet Red Army over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.

"The Red Army freed Latvia from Hitler. [..] The day of victory is only the day of victory over the Hitlerians, " Pimenovs said, stressing that it is "not a Russian monument" because people of different nationalities, including Ukrainians and Latvians, served in the Red Army. Igor Pimenov’s remark explicitly rejects attempts to link the gruesome story of the monument to “Russian crimes in Ukraine”:

During the debate in Parliament, the Saeima deputy Krista Baumane (Development/For!) stated that the Uzvaras Park monument in Riga, Pardaugava was a symbol of Soviet occupation. Since February 24, when Russia started the war in Ukraine, it has become a symbol of Russian crimes in Ukraine.

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Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland knew for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied Poland that vilified Jews during the Second World War.

Ms. Freeland's family history has become a target for Russian forces seeking to discredit one of Canada's highly placed defenders of Ukraine.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/freeland-knew-her-grandfather-was-editor-of-nazi-newspaper/article34236881/

Definition of whataboutism

the act or practice of responding to an accusation of wrongdoing by claiming that an offense committed by another is similar or worse.

It means that Ms. Freeland's family history is relegated to the status of Russian propaganda, but it is A GRUESOME FACT!

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Jennifer Psaki: If Belarus invades Ukraine, the US 6th Fleet will be immediately deployed to the shores of Belarus.
Journalist: But Belarus has no outlet to the sea.
Jennifer Psaki: The State Department is not embarrassed.

Against the background of Jen Psaki's narrow-minded statements, nonsense from Victoria Nuland and Barack Obama's opuses, a proposal was made to put into circulation a unit of insanity: 1 psak. 1000 psak is already 1 nulland, and 1000 nulland is 1 obama.

Answering Matt's question whether Kiev is wise to continue fighting in the area of ​​the Boeing disaster, the State Department spokesman replied:
“The main culprits are the pro-Russian separatists. You cannot rely on them. They had to observe the truce ... Russians say one thing, do another, and this is a good example. "

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Earlier, White House spokesperson Kate Bedingfield said the US had information that Mr Putin "felt misled by the Russian military" and this had resulted in "persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership".

"Putin's war has been a strategic blunder that has left Russia weaker over the long term and increasingly isolated on the world stage," she said.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby called the assessments "discomforting", because an uninformed Putin could result in a "less than faithful" effort at ending the conflict through peace negotiations.

"The other thing is, you don't know how a leader like that is going to react to getting bad news," he said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60936117

 
Категория: Stylistics | Просмотров: 230 | Добавил: Voats | Дата: 05.05.2022 | Комментарии (1)