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cW  ·  4326 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Robert Bly reads "the scolding Rumi" (I don't like it here)

Ooo wow. Rhotacism! Cool word. Thank you for it. To use it in a sentence, I had known a friend for years before realizing he displayed rhotacist tendencies. Except that it was with ell, not arrr. Ergo, probably a different word. Can't help me with that one, can you?

I'm taking Bly on faith when I call it a translation. However, I suspect there may be a much deeper conflict of definition here. So, I must ask, what to you would distinguish a version from a translation?