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Latin Translation Exercise: "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails

Latin Translation Exercise: "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor's nu-metal hit song, rendered into an ancient tongue.

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Alex Nusky
Mar 18, 2023
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Latin Translation Exercise: "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails
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I don’t have a cheeky little explanation to introduce why I chose this song for this month’s translation. I was listening to the album Mouth Silence by Neil Cicierega, and I wanted to translate Closer, but it’s already been done. True, it’s done for accuracy rather than sing-ability, but it’s better to have a broader library of these examples than to us…

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