Post #2867133
2026-02-21 08:07 UTC
@Furthering@convo.casa @zoy@merveilles.town It is beautiful. When I read emails etc from people I know well, I hear it in their voice, with their accent. It would be very disconcerting to read something from them that didn't match how they speak. That would particularly be the case for communications that are really about relationships, rather than imparting information - congratulations, commiserations, seeing how folk are doing. We absolutely _need_ the humanity of our individual expression.
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@dartigen@aus.social 2026-02-21 09:50
@RadtkeJCJ@mastodon.scot @Furthering@convo.casa @zoy@merveilles.town Plus, maybe I'm a freak but sometimes I like to struggle a bit with a text. I have a notepad held onto my copy of Sacred Games with a rubber band, where I wrote notes on all the unfamiliar slang terms and references. It's taken me much longer than usual to read it, but so much atmosphere and tone would be lost without it! If all that was stripped out, it wouldn't be Mumbai noir anymore, it'd just be noir set in Mumbai, and not nearly as interesting or fun to read. (And clearly there's plenty of agreement that it's a good novel, since it got a Netflix series.)