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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Words

Gypsy Wagon In The Moonlight
Why is "dear" one of the most difficult words to translate? And where does this come up in the Romany folk tale of  the Red King and the Witch ? - Totalitarianism Today
I have no idea why 'dear' would be difficult to translate, and reading the fairy tale doesn't help much, but it's kind of an unusual fairy tale. It has a lot of common fairy tale elements, but there are a couple of incidents that make you wonder.

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