Comment on Raise your words
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours agoIt means to elevate your language, rather than just get life. Raise as in rise above.
Comment on Raise your words
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours agoIt means to elevate your language, rather than just get life. Raise as in rise above.
bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I feel like it wouls be better to substitute elevate into that whole phrase rather than raise.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
But elevate and raise are synonymous, and the double entendre is kind of the whole point, here. I have no idea how it worked in the original Arabic, as this is a quote from medieval Sufi poet, Rumi. But I assume there was a similar clever play on words happening.