Marianne

Opinions that got awkward

Revisado: 03-06-25

I’m all for understanding linguistically and etymology… how languages go together with particularly dead languages because that’s what I translate from Hebrew, Latin, German , Gaelic, French and Spanish. I mean AI is reading Pompeii burnt scrolls that he did not discuss or the dead sea scrolls again ones that he did not discuss. Anyone who translates languages knows that there are multiple ways to understand, cultural, historical, context and is incredibly subjective sad to say. With that in mind one has a lot of biases —-his job as an author was to make his points make sense to the readers. He did a disjointed job with Celtic language with the 4th century Irish saying that they are useless so Latin is better. Of course it’s an opinion but his opinion was not expressed well with the cultural context. Saying that the Irish is bad because of the poetic medium in which they chose to write in. I questioned how intelligent he was.
He mocked the culture of Irish but never explain how Irish and Latin work together for centuries in Ireland. Lame!! We already know that many Empires through the centuries and world hailed to Latin. Nothing new there! National Geographic is more informative them this author.
Then him bring up Ancient biblical text was a snooze feast with him mocking Joseph Smith Mormonism…boring. Quoting Mark Twain in Roughing it, as if he was a linguistic mastermind. Laughable and he tried to prove that the gold plates that Joseph Smith were in accurate he never addressed Egyptian just the a wee bit of Hebrew. Anyone who translates Biblical Hebrew would know that. It was blah! Then he attacked the new translation version of the Bible. Please you are selling a book on dead languages and you writing that you hate ancient languages. Oh goodness! Not even touching on Egyptian, slight Aramaic, Irish( more modern then ancient), not even telling the difference between modern Hebrew and biblical Hebrew. Sheesh and then lecturing that you have to learn how to read biblical Hebrew to understand the Bible ridiculous. Even though I’ve translated the Bible. Hebrew is not the only language in there. It was ridiculous that his bias of the Celtic Irish text and the Bible translations showed his hatred. He definitely made his opinion that English is king in being correct and being pompous. He spoke little of dead languages in ancient text, which was a colossal waste of my time.

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Very corky stories but very fun. Also, very long advertisements.

Revisado: 11-09-24

The Thanksgiving dream is random yet hilarious when father carves the duck I laughed so hard. The advertisements for the amount of content was overwhelming. But the performance and storytelling amazing.

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Amazing performance and short story

Revisado: 02-15-24

It was amazing story and book. Music and all quite a beautiful experience. I wish it included a pdf of the art. That is my only critique.

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Not want I thought

Revisado: 12-15-23

This book was not at all what I thought it would be. Way more talking and not teaching 5 minute meditation.

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Great book

Revisado: 09-05-22

Great book- chapter 8 was interview and rehashed everything that was already said. It did not have a time or date said when it was done exactly so the context seemed off.

I loved that he included a PDF of the book.

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Just amazing!!

Revisado: 04-17-22

I love this author and how he pieces such a good historical novel of NOLA. Amazing! The performer voice beautiful and southern accent that beautiful accuracy of the Spanish, and French. I only wish the author touched on the Italian in NOLA.Such a great book and great to listen on audibles.

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