Andrew (host)

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Send Me To Sleep · Send Me To Sleep | Libraries · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

there may be layers of differing interpretation when reading a text in this way which seems perhaps trivial but sometimes there can be profound differences in the way we've come to understand things depending on our true level of comprehension of the language that we're attempting to ingest voice-verified

I used an example of Marcus Aurelius and his meditations of course which would have been translated originally from Greek. voice-verified

First of all, so there is a layer of transformed interpretation that is in some way forced upon us. voice-verified

forced upon us and then changes the way that we would ingest the information. voice-verified

But then something else on top of that, of course, is that many of the translations of that book that we would read today were translated some time ago. voice-verified

almost perhaps a hundred years ago, some modern readable translations of Marcus Aurelius' work. voice-verified

And even that comparatively short length of time has had some transformation in the English language. voice-verified

Or more so, should I say, voice-verified

Particular words have come in and out of usage, all of which to say voice-verified

reading even old translations of Marcus Aurelius can feel quite dense and difficult to pass and if you are not familiar with certain sentence structures or the way that this information is being conveyed voice-verified

then that can absolutely change the way in which one interprets the text that they're looking into and so that is of course the first layer, the literal interpretation of the language that we are reading voice-verified

The second layer thereon would be the cultural context in which we are reading it. voice-verified

And to some degree, the literal language that we speak plays into this. voice-verified

We might begin a conversation about linguistic determinism perhaps from here. voice-verified

I've not done a lot of research into linguistic determinism, though I have done some. voice-verified

And my conclusions there are not voice-verified

wholly personally, some of which very much influenced by the work of others, but overall I would say that this idea, and if you're not familiar, linguistic determinism voice-verified

in a nutshell is the idea that the language you speak in some way determines the way you think and that the differences the nuances between the way that languages are structured for example grammatical voice-verified

changes in structure and the use of genders in words and the way in which tense is used across varying languages voice-verified

The words that we have to describe particular, for example, colors or textures or experiences. voice-verified

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