Comment on Raise your words

• bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like it wouls be better to substitute elevate into that whole phrase rather than raise.

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  • 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.

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