🎭 Culture 3d ago · Clellan Coe

The World, Near and Long

The American Scholar

American Scholar magazine

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The world is a wonderful place, as we are told. As we are told, as we hear, as they say—these are ways in English to refer to commonly accepted opinions. In Spanish, the way is to refer to “the other.” As the other says, como dice el otro. Also the reflexive, se dice, “it is said,” and sometimes you hear the more elevated version, como dice el poeta, which means “as the poet says.”
This last always causes me a moment’s confusion. What poet? I look around to see if I’ve missed a clue. You might a