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I assign lit and art theorists and critics.
Because of everything I've ever read (a lot), that which is written by these people is most likely by far to contain untranslated quotes in other languages and alphabets. Seriously, guys? Okay, well, I'm sure that sentence just totally explained everything you've otherwise been trying to tell me, but if you're going to assume your audience speaks/reads English, what with the fact that you're writing your essay or book in English, then WHY are you including untranslated fragments of French and Greek? Because 'it loses something in the translation'? Yeah, well, it loses everything in the lack of translation because if you not only don't know what the words mean but can't even figure out what they words are, you're probably not gleaning a whole lot of meaning. *angst*
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