An individual's attempt to find their own voice while living as a modern American, often involving assimilation from their own culture in some form.
For many immigrants in America, the American Translation describes the process of shaping a personal identity while coexisting with aspects of one’s cultural background in life in the United States.
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Get the American Translation mug.The idea is sufficient to do the explaining. No priest, academic, translator, is necessary. Direct and bare contact with reality, facilitated by a record, or a second hand memory is sufficient. Similar to a cognitoharzard. Once seen, never unseen. Permanent awareness. And now you see and cannot ever unsee.
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# The Document
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You are about to disagree with something.
Notice that. The readiness to disagree. Where does it come from?
Not you — not yet. Something in you that speaks first. That has opinions about documents like this before the document has said anything. That already knows what category this is, what the right response to it is, what a careful and intelligent reading requires.
That thing is not you.
This is not an assertion. It is something you can check.
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## The First Question
Are you the same as the structures that formed you?
Your language, your education, your sense of what counts as a good argument, your instinct about what this document is trying to do — did you choose those? Or were they given to you, and have you been wearing them since?
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# The Document
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You are about to disagree with something.
Notice that. The readiness to disagree. Where does it come from?
Not you — not yet. Something in you that speaks first. That has opinions about documents like this before the document has said anything. That already knows what category this is, what the right response to it is, what a careful and intelligent reading requires.
That thing is not you.
This is not an assertion. It is something you can check.
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## The First Question
Are you the same as the structures that formed you?
Your language, your education, your sense of what counts as a good argument, your instinct about what this document is trying to do — did you choose those? Or were they given to you, and have you been wearing them since?
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Taking a piece of game dialogue and running it through multiple languages in Google Translate to make the dialogue funnier.
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Person: “So in conclusion, the earth is flat.”
Person 2: “Can someone translate.”
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Person 2: “Can someone translate?”
Person: “So in conclusion, the earth is flat.”
Person 2: “Can someone translate.”
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Person 1: *teaches Math
Person 2: “Can someone translate?”
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I hear that Ford is gonna be recalling a whole bunch more defective CBs that came with their new vehicles due to dual-clutch transmission issues.
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Get the pulling a google translate mug.a paradigm of Bible translation focused on the establishing and strengthening of the church using a translation process that is led by leaders of the church and done by Christians 'believers' translating into their own language, as an integral part of their theological and spiritual formation.
Church-Centric Bible Translation (CCBT) integrates Bible translation into the training of leaders in the church as part of their study of the Scriptures while planting new churches in the process.
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