# yiddish (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover yiddish. Page: Feed: --- ## [What’s the best translation of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms?](https://welovetranslations.com/2026/07/19/whats-the-best-translation-of-the-romance-of-the-three-kingdoms/) _2026-07-19 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ Pick the English translation of the massive classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms that will best help you enjoy one of China’s greatest epics. You’ve got three to choose from. ## [Gang Slang Experts are not so expert](https://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/2026/4/22/gang-slang-experts-are-not-so-expert) _2026-04-22 · Taylor Jones · Language Jones_ I’ve been delinquent in blogging since becoming more serious about consistently posting on YouTube, but this is a post that I think is very important, and I’ll be building on in future posts. I have been waiting until I’m sufficiently “in-between” cases to be able to talk about this, but I’ve basically been retained for at least one, if not two or three, cases at any given time. The video I’m… ## [What’s the best translation of The Metamorphosis?](https://welovetranslations.com/2026/02/07/whats-the-best-translation-of-the-metamorphosis/) _2026-02-07 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ According to Joyce Crick, translator for Oxford Classics, “\[Kafka\] insisted that the cover illustration should not depict the insect. The physical appearance of the insect is far less important than its emotional connotations.” But look how many current editions depict an insect anyway! ## [What’s the best translation of The Stranger (The Outsider)?](https://welovetranslations.com/2026/02/07/whats-the-best-translation-of-the-stranger-the-outsider/) _2026-02-07 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ “Like Kafka written by Hemingway,” according to critic Jean Paulhan. ## [What’s the best translation of Night by Elie Wiesel?](https://welovetranslations.com/2026/01/27/whats-the-best-translation-of-night-by-elie-wiesel/) _2026-01-27 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ Elie Wiesel bears witness to the horrors of the Holocaust because “to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." ## [What’s the best translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude?](https://welovetranslations.com/2025/12/26/whats-the-best-translation-of-one-hundred-years-of-solitude/) _2025-12-26 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ There's only one, and according to the author, it's better than his original Spanish version! ## [What’s the best translation of Journey to the Center of the Earth?](https://welovetranslations.com/2025/12/17/whats-the-best-translation-of-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/) _2025-12-17 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ If when you read this book, the characters are called Professor Von Hardwigg, Harry or Henry Lawson, and Gretchen, you are reading the anonymous 1871 Griffith and Farran English translation. Those are not the character names used in every other version---and those weren’t the only changes the translator made! ## [What’s the best translation of Around the World in Eighty Days?](https://welovetranslations.com/2025/12/17/whats-the-best-translation-of-around-the-world-in-eighty-days/) _2025-12-17 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ Did you know there’s no hot air balloon in the book? A balloon is shown on the covers of some editions because of the 1956 movie! ## [What’s the best translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea?](https://welovetranslations.com/2025/12/17/whats-the-best-translation-of-twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea/) _2025-12-17 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ Jules Verne’s reputation in the Anglophone world has undergone considerable transformation as translators have more and more seriously sought to recapture his original text and its meaning. ## [What’s the best translation of Water Margin?](https://welovetranslations.com/2025/08/24/whats-the-best-translation-of-water-margin/) _2025-08-24 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ It’s like the story of Robin Hood, but in China… that is, it would be, if the story of Robin Hood were brutally violent, and included crude language, seduction, murder of women and children, and cannibalism! ## [Pirate.io on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QTD4oYYP8U6p) _2025-08-24 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Pirate.io listing on Google Play to view the app’s details. ## [What’s the best translation of Notes from Underground?](https://welovetranslations.com/2025/08/23/whats-the-best-translation-of-notes-from-underground/) _2025-08-23 · Lucy Day Werts · We Love Translations_ In his introduction to the Ginsburg translation published by Bantam, Donald Fanger calls Notes from Underground “one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.” ## [In Which I Respond To Sabine](http://marty-green.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-which-i-respond-to-sabine_13.html) _2025-08-14 · Marty Green · Why I hate physics_ In this post I respond to Sabine' Hossenfelder's description of the beam splitter paradox. Sabine (and everyone else) assumes you can shoot photons at the beam splitter, one photon at a time. You can't. There is no pea shooter for photons. All the mind-blowing paradoxes flow from the mistaken assumption that we have a little gun that lets us point and shoot photons at will. Here is my video… ## [I'm back....?](http://marty-green.blogspot.com/2025/08/im-back.html) _2025-08-09 · Marty Green · Why I hate physics_ Haven't posted for like 10 years, and I thought I'd try to sign in....somehow Blogger still remembers me??? Let's see if this works.... ## [Did Rich Lowry just say the N-word on Megyn Kelly's show? A Linguist weighs in.](https://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/2024/9/17/did-rich-lowry-just-say-the-n-word-on-megyn-kellys-show) _2024-09-18 · Taylor Jones · Language Jones_ Yesterday, discussing Haitian migrants in Springfield Ohio, and whether or to what extent they may or may not be abducting and eating (presumably white) Ohioans’ pets — because this is what the political discourse in the US is, and if we’re honest, has always been —Rich Lowry seems to have inadvertently used the n-word. Yes, that one. The one that rhymes with trigger , as in obvious trigger… [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53812953e4b02ca8a934eebf/t/66ea4ffc6cd62d12e45d3bf9/1726631933912/HaitianCleaned.mp3)