Waar rook is is vuur
also untranslatable
Author: harmenscholte
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On dune
Not trying to expose Villeneuve but “lisan al ghaib” is “strange voice,” rather than “voice of the outer world.”
Edit: a Arabic transcript of voice of the outer world could be “lisan al-dar”
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Ex nihilo
Hunter-prey models claim a distinguished space in between biology and computer science which for example has lupes and خرف modelled in partial differential equations to track the sizes of the perspective genomes.
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Proverbs pt. 2
“Geduld is een schone zaak.”
(“Good things come to those who wait”) but strictly it is untranslatable.
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On holidays
What a wondrous country Italy is with traditions so balanced that the entire Motherland gets a reputation for being rigid.
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Phi
losophical investigations #2
It seems that philosophy is knowledge that has gained momentum. Aristotle chose to not follow in Socrates’ footsteps by fleeing the unfriendly philosophical habitas as opposed to Socrates who chose to die a martyrs death. The ethos of Jezus can be considered to repeat this fate of Belief.
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In sha Allah
In sha Allah or إن شاء اللة is a phrase that is used by Moslims to indicate either that it is uncertain or in more religious contexts that it is not in their hands but believed to be “written” in advance.
Deo volente is the academic counterpart.