The Metropolitan Cathedral is the largest cathedral in Mexico City and the whole of the Americas and the construction began in 1573. When sound was added to film in the 1920s, spoken English suddenly dominated the movie world. Crystal remarks that the artistic and commercial development of cinema from 1895 also helped establish English around the world. Art and technology also played a role in cementing the role of English. The lingua franca of the world has always been the language of commercial heft, according to British linguist David Crystal, and in the last several hundred years, that language has been English. It’s so easy to assume that the greatest achievements in literature took place in the English world when a quick look at history tells us that English as a language of communication is relatively new when pitted against the history of the universe.Īs I said in my first post, NOT LOST IN TRANSLATION, in the years I attended India’s Jaipur Literature Festival, I’d always been uncomfortable about how regional language events often received poor attendance whereas discussions in English (unless there was star power during the presentation in the regional language) always drew the maximum crowds. My early life was spent immersed in the Encyclopedia Brittanica and my fascination with the English language led me to a degree in English literature. For too long I’d been frolicking in a world determined and hemmed in by the English language. I started this project as my personal deep dive into literature in translation.
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