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@SimonRoyHughes I see it as a connotation to the people who go out to save ships in need. "Bergingsaksjon" and "bergingsmannskap" is associated with helping people in extreme danger. Often at sea or in the mountains with extreme weather

@SimonRoyHughes @lbheuschkel Yes, I can see that "de syv hav" becomes "seven seas", for example. I think rindende is hard to pin down. (I see in the footnote that Arne Garborg gave up.) In this context I would probably pick "rushing" to maintain the ambiguity. (King Oceansaver rushing Sea Troll.) But there is also a Norse goddess Rind, to make it all even more complicated. Perhaps (probably?) the sound of it is more important than the meaning

@SimonRoyHughes @lbheuschkel Is there a place we can see the whole passage in Norwegian? Would be nice to see "rindende" in context. It could be derived from "renne", which would usually refer to a flowing stream, but it is also possible to use about a person (or troll) running. https://naob.no/ordbok/renne_1 ("Renne over ende" is an idiom, where you rush over somebody causing them to loose balance). I think "Havsensberger" would probably most accurately be rendered as "Ocean Saver". "Sjø", like sea, can be an ocean or a lake, but "hav" would only refer to an ocean.

@SimonRoyHughes "berger" should be in the sense of "saver" I think, so Sea Saver, perhaps

@kevinrothrock So now I just need an untraceble means of payment. Or they will know even more about me

Through his language theories, the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure proposed the idea of a stable link between words and their meanings. Post structuralist analyses of poets like Stéphane Mallarmé shows that the decontextualized sign is unstable and that it's possible to create a game of shifting meaning through manipulation of context. Metaphor theorists have later observed that experienced basic concepts like up and down are stable, and that we use concepts related to these to emphasize analogous dynamics in more diffuse experiences like emotions and love. The anchor of meanings has gone from being the language to the experience.

I'm Diggin' Kovacs https://youtu.be/T24OXwxm-rc?t=3 #music

@Shanmonster Maybe you are just finishing the story early? Modern plotting has a symbolic death and then a return to the land of living

@RustyBertrand There is something to the first line of the second stanza å. It is so alive

@SimonRoyHughes @bookstodon @reading It seems to depend on the citation style or convention you follow

I am looking for quotes relevant to what we may call the War of the Reading Intention. Here is an early one:

"You say to yourself that the work before you is not of its own creation. It is simply a mold like a fossil shell, an imprint similar to one of those forms embedded in a stone by an animal which once lived and perished. Beneath the shell was an animal and behind the document there was a man. Why do you study the shell unless to form some idea of the animal? In the same way do you study the document in order to comprehend the man; both shell and document are dead fragments and of value only as indications of the complete living being. The aim is to reach this being; this is what you strive to reconstruct. It is a mistake to study the document as if it existed alone by itself." --Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) in the Introduction to his *History of English Literature*

#literature #academicchatter

@alicemcalicepants Go to the gym and the rest will follow

@krypt3ia @SteveD3 Ironically, his warning is valid but too late. The internet and our mobile already hacked our whole life

The assumption that everything is action was, of course, refuted together with Aristotelian physics. If we limit the scope to that of human and academic discourse, it starts to make sense. It has the advantage over everything-is-language that it encompasses interactions with the world.

Modern discursive theory seems built on the assumption that everything is language. Unlike saying, for example, that everything is state in flux, the assumption is obviously reductionist and can be discarded off hand. It would be interesting to formulate a discursive theory based on the less counter-intuitive assumption that everything is action instead.

@jramskov @anderspuck @laimis My impression is that bird.makeup has stopped working for the most part. Probably because of the new rate limits