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humanodon · 4256 days ago · link · · parent · post: Robert Bly reads "the scolding Rumi" (I don't like it here)
If the process deals with /l/ then it's something called "gliding of liquids". Anyway, a rhotacism is the general process of producing a hard /r/ while non-rhotic dialects would for example (in American English) be the New English accent and most British English dialects. The dialogue in terms of Rumi is that in the dialect of Persian he wrote in is often not translated directly, that is the "translations" are approximations of what the translator understands the tone and diction of the original text to mean. A version would be such an interpretation. I can't read the language Rumi wrote in and I wonder how faithfully Bly and others have reproduced it, especially since so Rumi is such a popular poet these days. Anyway, good post.