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Silvester Paradox: hoaxer or mystificator?
MJ suggests that “adventures, devices and hoaxes” is a better translation of “aventuras, inventos y mixtificaciones” than “adventures, inventions and mystifications.” I think that’s a bit hard on C19th Spain’s greatest scientist ;o)
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October 18th, 2006 at 18:18
[…] I continue to think “mystifications” is a better translation than “hoaxes” of mixtificaciones. Gerald Howson in The flamencos of Cadiz Bay writes of a 1950s carnaval pregonero preaching against the use of “mixtifications, modernisms and orfeonic banalities” in carnival songs. He wouldn’t have liked Silvester Paradox either. Trevor ap Simon on 2006/10/18 @ 18:18 in Splog, Of etymology, Les bourgeois, Pío Baroja ‹‹ Horny ‹‹ […]