While I can't understand the chinese characters and mainly know pinyin if anything, I the first english character I make out is the word eyes but it doesn't sound out of place or foreign being sung alongside Chinese characters. Weird but cool #hwa4 #yingelishiparty

In my world, everyone speaks a warped English where goodbye is mistranslated as good buy. Now every time someone says goodbye small trade is done, like a snack or food and leaving without trading is a crime.

#hwa4 #lostandremade

The string instrumentation in the beginning section really does feel like the end of something that's transfering to a new beginning. This reflects in the words as well as the person is transitioning to a new stage of life after the loss of a loved one #hwa4 #yingelishiparty

In British India, English replaced Persian in the courts. Local people lost justice because they could not understand English. The British benefited because they now controlled how the law was read.
#hwa4 #translationasviolence

#hwa4 #yingelishiparty this part struck me before and strikes me again, wow. it just feels like such a stark contrast between what is being said in english, in chinese, and how it is being sang with the music, it just feels like a mix of so many feelings i can't quite name

I choose Goffman. According to him, we’re performing based on our surroundings. He calls this impression management. Softening your tone or updating subtitles for a joke is deciding how the text comes across, so translation is a performance, not just a transfer of language.
#hwa4 #translationacts

#hwa4 #yingelishiparty help ! seafom waterfall ! i may not be the target audience but this is so much fun. Sound seems to be the main thing translated, but this can be for anyone who's willing enough to auditorially engage with new things

#hwa4 #yingelishiparty tragedy is striking ! oh, my god. this must've been so much fun in the studio. i wish people had fun like this more often

What you do when you translate is more than just changing words from one language to another. With Homi Bhabha's Third Space in mind, translation is not a perfect mix of cultures, but it's a place where many things can happen. #hwa4 #translationacts

I'm imagining a world where everyone speaks english with a southern accent and it degrades over time, eventually turning into a language that's split into different groups depending on where you live and you can't understand the others. As far as rituals grunts are increased #hwa4 #lostandremade

#hwa4 #yingelishiparty fluency is just entering a flow state where you can listen to the vocals, read everything, and just appreciate it for what it is, which is a crazy mix of mastery of languages. It's not about what IS right, it's about what feels right

#hwa4 #yingelishiparty i feel like im having a conversation with her, when she said please forgive me i was like, oh please girl you can do NO wrong in my heart with that kind of singing

What was a prime example of violence in translation is the Greek translation of the hebrew word "almah" and the birth of the concept of the virgin birth in the Christian doctrine. The Greeks were able to then effectively boost their religious thoughts through this. #hwa4 #translationasviolence

#hwa4 #yingelishiparty tried singing along, it seems to be doable/predictable with where the next note will fall, so it's actually kind of fun to see what comes next

#hwa4 #yingelishiparty the instrumental really helps with bringing it back to a more traditional Chinese sense

In my world of french speakers, no words have gender anymore and every silent letter must be pronoucned. #hwa4 #lostandremade

#hwa4 #yingelishiparty "oracle scatter jade-like thoughts" i barely have a concept of what this means but all i know is that i feel like a princess and i want someone to scatter jade like thoughts in my head

would include meetings with people who speak a different mistranslated versions of it and, for once, do not interpret them as reciprocal meanings. #hwa4 #lostandremade

Richard Schechner defines performance as something we do repeatedly. For language we speak the same words and phrases over and over. This can be powerful as someone's idea of language can influence others and ultimately replace original identity. #hwa4 #translationacts

I really like listening to this audio and discovering it. Sometimes I would try to listen to everything at once, cover the English, or read only the poem. I had fun with the whole experience and trying to make connections between the English and the poem. #hwa4 #yingelishiparty