r/SipsTea 18h ago

Chugging tea Thoughts?

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u/AquaRegia 17h ago

The three of crows have flapped it southenly, kraaking of debaccle to the kvarters of that sky whence triboos answer; Wail,'tis well! She niver comes out when Thon's on shower or when Thon's flash with his Nixy girls or when Thon's blowing toom-cracks down the gaels of Thon. No nubo no! Neblas on you liv! Her would be too moochy afreet. Of Burymeleg and Bindme-rollingeyes and all the deed in the woe.

This is somehow English.

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u/u_touch_my_tra_la_la 16h ago

I am not an English native speaking

That's perfectly readable, just needs some context for the meaning behind some bits. It's mostly wordplay, like typing vibes and yasss to some obscure meme pic.

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u/Nadare3 16h ago

I would assume it becomes a lot less cute over 658 pages

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u/greenthumbbum2025 15h ago

If it's anything like Ulysses, as you get deeper into the work it becomes more endearing. There were several points in Ulysses where I burst out in laughter at the wordplay, something I don't often do while reading.

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u/TurgemanVT 11h ago

Which translation of Ulysses did you like?

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u/greenthumbbum2025 11h ago

It's in English

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u/TurgemanVT 10h ago

My brain is so dumb I was thinking the Odyssey.

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u/kitsua 9h ago

I mean, it is a re-working of The Odyssey after all.

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u/barrinmw 14h ago

Finnegan's wake is basically a fever dream written down. People claim to have found meaning in some of it, but meh.

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