Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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Another post about an interesting translator: Michael S. Rosenwald at the
NY Times reports that “Shuntaro Tanikawa, Popular Poet and Translator of
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be certain of not encountering anything more disgusting in the course of the day. Nicholas de Chamfort
I tried the online antonym dictionary. All of its suggestions seemed rather inadequate and/or harsh.
ReplyDeletePlease feel free to use "LẌ" if you can't find a suitable word.
good link - the antonym dictionary confirms my thoughts on this one.
DeleteWell.... if you can't do something so well just use the word 'modern' . So I do a bit of modern calligraphy, and you do modern ironing. I also do modern cooking and cleaning. 'Popular' may also work!!
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For a made up word you could use the word 'tainted'. I don't know why, maybe because it sounds like talented.... so people might think you're given them a complement and won't be offended :-)
ReplyDeleteYeah.... I've spent too long thinking about this now and I'm tainted at it....
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Tainted is brilliant, also following your last comment I think post-modern works very well too xxx
DeleteGift-challenged? Lacktalent? I like that. It rings of Elizabeth the First. I'm impressed that you could spell "de rigueur." All those u's and r's would have defeated me. Happy 4th of July!
ReplyDeletelacktalent is great - I've just used it to explain why the floor is still fluffy xx
DeleteMay I offer Turnbullian...
ReplyDeleteIt's a family name of some dear ones so not possible round here
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