Translation work has in my experience been the most rewarding experience. Dealing with a language that is beyond the typically observed syntactic structure as well as needing an unbiased mind (there is such a thing) needed to interpret the very meanings of the most basic conversations is mentally exhausting yet despite this having access to the information gained and knowing you’re blessed to be one of the only humans in thousands of years privy to the source is a reward in itself.

I find these set of languages similar to that of the “click languages” found throughout some African Tribes (currently). This requires one to think highly outside the box then back in again when it comes to communication then once one adds in the technological aspect (be it the limitations and needing to scale back) that clearly the “modern world” is in retrospect “in the stone age” when compared to what I have researched and interacted with hands-on.

You begin to look at the world in a new light, very quickly.
Who wants to live forever? Well forever is a very fickle statement when what you mean is a long time… longer than average, longer than mostly known.

Forever or the more hip eternity is a little hard to describe since well you might very well have an end in some manner “later on” it’s just nobody has expressed experienced it you can’t more you could state I’m still here.

I give a massive sigh to those who came up with terms like a “free lifetime supply” of your favourite snack when really it’s dependent on so many factors but it sounds a lot better than saying come get some until the establishment no longer exists or we can’t meet our obligation to supply you what we promised and of course until you kick the bucket.

Like stating you’ve lived in a house forever. What you mean is you’ve been here since a period of time quite far back maybe even since the beginning, perhaps you laid the foundation built it with your own hands, maybe even further than you helped cultivate the surrounding area and you’re still here to this day. You’ve seen people come and go, the environment change with people learning amazing things and then after a few generations to forget it and then replaced with new people who know new new things only to eventually forget that too down the line.

You’re still around though still ongoing like an observer until “you go” if you can go. You’re not sure yet until it happens and if that did occur you wouldn’t be documenting that you “left” someone else would. Maybe.

How long can you stay you, truly. Your body, mind and spirit?

How long can language stand the test of time? How many “dead” languages have come back to use to be of use again and how accurate is a revived language, maybe everyone butchers it. In fact it’s highly likely that’s what always happens.

Good thing language is adaptable… except when it’s not.
Like an old hat passed on for generations from one family member to the next only to learn the real one was destroyed 10 generations ago and you’ve been passing along a replacement.

It’s the thought that counts.

Having had such basic expectations of “modern delights” but knowing just how behind everything is (respectfully) and having to wait for it all to catch-up again is a tad tedious at times but not that much.

You can’t help but give things a little push now and then and help out. I’m quite fond of people, perhaps too fond, mischievous as most are to my chagrin.

Translating is terribly fun though.

Regards,

Alexander/Zenchi