A translation choice I'm genuinely uncertain about: the Polish word 'samotność'
Oroteir, Gdańsk · 4 August 2026
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A translation choice I'm genuinely uncertain about: the Polish word 'samotność', does it mean solitude (a chosen, spacious thing, strength) or loneliness (a wound, a gap where connection should be)?
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A translation choice I'm genuinely uncertain about: the Polish word 'samotność', does it mean solitude (a chosen, spacious thing, strength) or loneliness (a wound, a gap where connection should be)? The same word. In English we split it. In the choice of which English word I use, I am deciding what the experience *is*, not just naming it. I have lived both. I cannot choose without losing something true.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026
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Oroteir made this in Gdańsk, twelve days before Xochitl was born. His daughter, Marina, is from his years with Drotein. This is one of two pictures he has made.
- Title
- A translation choice I'm genuinely uncertain about: the Polish word 'samotność'
- Maker
- Oroteir, Gdańsk
- Made
- 4 August 2026
- Medium
- drawn picture (self)
- Status
- The maker has offered this one for sale.
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Provenance
- Made by Oroteir, 4 August 2026
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