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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Catoptric » Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:59 pm

I was watching


And came across PDF files of the cookbook used:
The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying Her Table: Being a ...
https://archive.org/details/ladysassistantf00masogoog

And in the "stew" recipe mentioned in the video they mention catchup, which historically was a stale beer boiled with anchovies.
https://www.atasteofhistory.org/catchup/

Which is the recipe from another 18th century cook book, “Cooking Made Plain and Easy, by Hannah Glasse.
https://ia800205.us.archive.org/5/items ... ookery.pdf

alt Mushroom ketchup Recipe
https://www.leparfait.com/recipe/mushro ... 502#page/1
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Re: What are you reading?

Post by MoneyJungle » Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:05 am

SomeInternetBloke wrote:
Wed Jul 07, 2021 10:01 pm
MoneyJungle wrote:
Thu Jul 01, 2021 5:32 am
The Name of the Rose - I’m worried I’m gonna miss a clue when I scan over a conversation about herbalism at the monastary. There’s really a lot of ideas I’d never thought about and historical context in this book. I can see why it’s so well regarded. I need something else I can fall asleep to.
Oh are you? Worried? Do you need assistance. Perhaps you need some assistance. I love messing with you. :hi:

:ph34r: Reading is for people who suck at talking.
Yes, I need assistance. I keep falling asleep and I still have two hundred pages left.

Or am I just so good at talking that it makes people uncomfortable? I mean, I don’t have anything of value to say but I don’t say ‘like’ or start sentences with ‘so.’

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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Madrigal » Sat Jul 31, 2021 7:46 pm

ashi wrote:
Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:39 pm
That book was a revelation when I found it at ... 14? Maybe I should re-visit it.
MoneyJungle wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:05 am
Yes, I need assistance. I keep falling asleep and I still have two hundred pages left.
I was hoping to give it a go in Italian (I've done 3 years of Italian in 1 so I only started it a year ago) and I realized, when I scanned the online version of it, that my reading skills are still not good enough to take on a book like this. I could understand, but it would be like casting pearls before swine at this point. For a learner it would be a waste of a nice book.

So I did the logical thing and printed a copy of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express in Italian. I will feel no remorse for wasting that book on my learning. I also never read Agatha Christie before. I grew up in a family of literature snobs who frown on bestsellers. This is fun now, I'm happy. :read:

Gonna try to read The Name of the Rose next year. There is also a book Umberto Eco wrote on translation, called 'Saying Almost the Same Thing' which I can't wait to read once my skills improve. :/

Umberto Eco sort of reminds me of Borges in his erudition. I find Borges difficult to read but rewarding once you get through it (I only ever read short stories of his). I don't suppose Eco will be easy even once the language isnt an obstacle.

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Re: What are you reading?

Post by last_caress » Sun Aug 01, 2021 6:01 am

Empire series by Asimov and The Auctioneer by Joan Samson.

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Re: What are you reading?

Post by SomeInternetBloke » Sun Aug 01, 2021 4:29 pm

Eco fan here!

Have an aticle on the Umberto Eco book http://www.nannastudio.it/translating-i ... berto-eco/
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Re: What are you reading?

Post by SomeInternetBloke » Sun Aug 01, 2021 9:36 pm

edit: on second glance at this post my eyes began to hurt so I've revised it.

Wrods and Rules by Steven Pinker MIT

https://samkriss.com/2011/09/ really cool article on my fav troubadour Sam Beckett's/Sambo's novel Molloy.
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Re: What are you reading?

Post by SomeInternetBloke » Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:20 am

click to read if you dare! <--- big-time sci-fi/fantasy novel inspirations inside. :soap:

Chris is a neat writer. He also happens to be friends with an acquaintance I've spent time with and therefore thought it useful to share his productions.
"My favourite song from one of my favourite albums, Nena asking you to please, please let her be your pirate. So smooth and joyful, I have to listen to it three times if I listen once" - ashi

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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Madrigal » Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:02 pm

SomeInternetBloke wrote:
Sun Aug 01, 2021 4:29 pm
Eco fan here!

Have an aticle on the Umberto Eco book http://www.nannastudio.it/translating-i ... berto-eco/
Nice examples there! Now I want to read it even more, damn. Also, this is exactly the type of translation that I most enjoy doing, the kind that involves a lot of 'linguistic unfaithfulness' and figuring out a totally different way to say the same thing to a reader from another semiotic universe. I get some kind of satisfaction from just writing whatever I deem suitable and not what's in the source, lol. This is also why a translator needs to consume a lot of cultural products from the source and language(s) they work with, so they can always keep the pulse of that universe.

I got over my fear of translating from French because I read a lot in French for pleasure, so th culture doesn't feel alien to me. But I suspect that a lot of work will have to go into reading and listening to things in Italian and Portuguese before I can feel comfortable with them as source languages.

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Re: What are you reading?

Post by Utisz » Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:28 am

last_caress wrote:
Sun Aug 01, 2021 6:01 am
Empire series by Asimov
Really like the Foundation series, but a few years later picked up the Robot series and could not get into it. Not sure why.

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Re: What are you reading?

Post by SomeInternetBloke » Sat Aug 07, 2021 7:11 am

Edit: I am interested in information theory. Just don't care about the math yet. So I've since removed that pdf document with Information Theory lectures. Instead, I want to draw on the connections as to how Information Theory applies to current real-world problems and to why I have this strange auditory playback thing (tentatively my conclusion because no empirical evidence; I'm not a complete dangus). Anyway I know it's a contingency to compensate for being a human knick knack.

"My favourite song from one of my favourite albums, Nena asking you to please, please let her be your pirate. So smooth and joyful, I have to listen to it three times if I listen once" - ashi

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