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PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi's not-so-subtle reprimand falls on deaf ears Victor Mair at Language Log 10ii25
Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language Douglas Hofstadter (1998) is for me a go-to in matters of the art (and perils) of Translation
...Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.
(Amazon blurb)