How We Are Translated

People say ‘I’m sorry’ all the time when it can mean both ‘I’m sorry I hurt you’ and ‘I’m sorry someone else did something I have nothing to do with’. It’s like the English language gave up on trying to find a word for sympathy which wasn’t also the word for guilt.

Swedish immigrant Kristin won’t talk about the Project growing inside her. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend Ciaran won’t speak English at all; he is trying to immerse himself in a Swedish språkbad language bath, to prepare for their future, whatever the fick that means. Their Edinburgh flat is starting to feel very small.

As this young couple is forced to confront the thing that they are both avoiding, they must reckon with the bigger questions of the world outside, and their places in it.

Oamenii spun ,,Imi pare rau" tot timpul cand poate insemna atat ,,Imi pare rau ca te-am ranit", cat si ,,Imi pare rau ca altcineva a facut ceva cu care nu am nimic de-a face". Este ca si cum limba engleza a renuntat sa incerce sa gaseasca un cuvant pentru simpatie, care sa nu fie si cuvantul pentru vinovatie.