Peter Svidler

@polborta.bsky.social

i have the best dog. chessplayer, cricket tragic, reader of books

And because of this social norm, the audience would immediately understand a man with no dog to be a slave/someone of extremely low status and would be like "what do you mean he's an army commander, where's his dog then"

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

went back to check and while i understand giving mom to bethell, his spell was crucial, i think it should have gone to someone who went for 75 off his ten. the game was still very much in the balance before the moon balls destroyed the middle order