Posts from — July 2011
¿Es ojear u hojear?
Una de las tÃpicas preguntas que uno se hace si le importa mÃnimamente la ortografÃa es la que da tÃtulo a este post. La respuesta depende de a lo que te refieras, estaréis pensando. Pues no. Veréis.
En lo que estoy pensando es en el acto de leer apresuradamente, por encima, en diagonal… un libro, periódico, revista. Antes de cotejarlo en el diccionario, siempre habÃa pensado que este acto se denomina ojear, siendo ojo la clave aquÃ.
Esto parece confirmarse si nos atenemos a la definición que de ojear hace el DRAE (acepción número 4):
1. tr. Mirar a alguna parte.
2. tr. aojar (‖ hacer mal de ojo).
Pero alguna vez en algún lugar lo vi escrito con hache. Hojear. Tanta fue mi sorpresa (pues el sitio web era de mi agrado y su autor una persona leÃda, viajada y adornada por múltiples cualidades) que tuve que irme de nuevo a consultar con el oráculo:
1. tr. Mover o pasar ligeramente las hojas de un libro o de un cuaderno.
2. tr. Pasar las hojas de un libro, leyendo deprisa algunos pasajes.
3. intr. Dicho de un metal: Tener hoja.
4. intr. Dicho de las hojas de un árbol: moverse (‖ menearse).
He aquà la cuestión. La cuarta acepción de ojear y las dos primeras de hojear pueden ser confundidas fácilmente. ¿Cuál usáis vosotros?.
Qué ambigüedad la del español, no sé si podré soportarlo.
July 29, 2011 3 comentarios
The last tremor of the awakening
Os dejo un pequeño fragmento de este libro, que me está encantando. En inglés, porque lo estoy leyendo en inglés y porque no encuentro una traducción al español. No es lo primero que leo de Herman Hesse.
Motionless, Siddhartha remained standing there, and for the time of one moment and breath, his heart felt cold, he felt a cold in his chest, as a small animal, a bird or a rabbit, would when seeing how alone he was. For many years, he had been without home and had felt nothing. Now, he felt it. Still, even in the deepest meditation, he had been his father’s son, had been a Brahman, of a high caste, a cleric. Now, he was nothing but Siddhartha, the awoken one, nothing else was left. Deeply, he inhaled, and for a moment, he felt cold and shivered. Nobody was thus alone as he was. There was no nobleman who did not belong to the noblemen, no worker that did not belong to the workers, and found refuge with them, shared their life, spoke their language. No Brahman, who would not be regarded as Brahmans and lived with them, no ascetic who would not find his refuge in the caste of the Samanas, and even the most forlorn hermit in the forest was not just one and alone, he was also surrounded by a place he belonged to, he also belonged to a caste, in which he was at home. Govinda had become a monk, and a thousand monks were his brothers, wore the same robe as he, believed in his faith, spoke his language. But he, Siddhartha, where did he belong to? With whom would he share his life? Whose language would he speak?
Out of this moment, when the world melted away all around him, when he stood alone like a star in the sky, out of this moment of a cold and despair, Siddhartha emerged, more a self than before, more firmly concentrated. He felt: This had been the last tremor of the awakening, the last struggle of this birth. And it was not long until he walked again in long strides, started to proceed swiftly and impatiently, heading no longer for home, no longer to his father, no longer back.
July 26, 2011 3 comentarios