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Latin Translation Exercise: "The Man Who Sold The World" by David Bowie/Nirvana

Latin Translation Exercise: "The Man Who Sold The World" by David Bowie/Nirvana

A song popularized by Nirvana's MTV Unplugged set, translated into an ancient tongue

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Alex Nusky
Oct 08, 2022
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Latin Translation Exercise: "The Man Who Sold The World" by David Bowie/Nirvana
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I had this song half-done when I published my first slate of Nirvana translations. I was struggling too much with it prior to publishing and I decided to scrap it. Recently, I had to clean up my Google Drive so I stumbled back over a whole cache of drafts that were too frustrating to complete when I started out. With a little more experience and a whole…

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