It's time to talk about those three little words, the words that always make my heart sing

every time I hear them, the words that make all the ladies' eyelids flutter that draw sighs from the crowd.

And of course, you know what three words I'm talking about.

It couldn't be anything other than the three words, Arma Wyrunkwe

Kano.

Wait, that wasn't, those weren't the three words?

I don't know any other three words, but bring sighs and tears of affection and love

from masses of ladies. No, I actually want to drill down into just those three words in this

Words, Words, Words, Series episode about the translation of the Aeneid. So usually once a week I like to talk about

just the nuances of language and how we translate from one language to another because it's

something last year I realized like not a lot of people kind of know what the basic problems are here. And we all,

in some way or another, deal with translation, whether it's because we're picking the addition of

Dostoevsky we want to read or because we have a buddy that is from overseas and we need

to like learn to talk to one another. There's a million different ways

that translation factors in. And actually one of the things that I always want to stress is that

even if we're speaking the same language, there are often problems of translation that we have

to deal with because language itself is always this imperfect tool that translates our inner thoughts

and our inner feelings. So thinking about translation, especially in works of great art, can actually

reveal a lot about this thing that we use every day all the time called language. And since we're

doing a series in the main show about the Aeneid, I've been doing

a little bit about the translation of the Aeneid from Latin. And last time I talked about all the

different English translations of Viannaud that we can look at and all the different possibilities.

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