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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...like totally different experience they they like only looked at the grammar and at the language but they didn't actually like understand what you're..."
Another student answers that Italian schooling often teaches the Divine Comedy as grammar and testing rather than as imagination, which is why students can spend years on it and still hate it.
"...like totally different experience they they like only looked at the grammar and at the language but they didn't actually like understand what you're..."
"...what Dante is doing is... By putting them together with the grammar, it forces you to see the connection. Okay? What is a simile?..."
"...to only have a few thousand words in it and a grammar that most speakers from major world languages can access can can find..."
"...empire. You think when you learn English, you're not just learning grammar and vocabulary. You are really learning a culture. A philosophy. An identity...."
"...understand is how poets transform civilization is they innovate in imagery, grammar, and vocabulary, OK? And when they do that, poets expand a civilization's..."
"...legal contracts, you can't read it. Why? Because the language, the grammar, is designed so that only as a specialized lawyer could you understand..."
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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