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Brett

@brett.mobi

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I’m the co-founder of a little marketing agency in Vietnam and Thailand. I love bookstores, fizzy water, crosswords & foreign languages.

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Brett @brett.mobi · 14/02/2026

Got my reading set for a quiet Tết holiday in Hanoi 🧧

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Brett @brett.mobi · 30/01/2026

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Brett @brett.mobi · 09/01/2026

Came across this passage in the final pages of Constance Garnett’s 1914 translation of Crime & Punishment, from Dostoevsky’s 1866 original. Wow… it seems to have something to say about the madness of the world we live in today, 160 years later

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Brett @brett.mobi · 03/01/2026

I might need to add more 0’s to my translations

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Brett @brett.mobi · 03/01/2026

Opening paragraph of Renee Gladman’s “The Ravickians” is wonderful on the limitations of translation

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Brett @brett.mobi · 26/11/2025

Here’s Đức Lưu playing Thị Nở (the ugliest woman in Vietnamese literature) from the film adaptation.

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Brett @brett.mobi · 21/08/2025

Enter the Cham people of central Vietnam. Their towers in places like Quy Nhơn (below) look a lot like what you see at Angkor Wat. That’s because the Cham had a lot of contact with Angkor (Khmer-speaking) civilization, and guess what Old Khmer has? Yes! It’s another “neang” (នាង)

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Brett @brett.mobi · 11/08/2025

Man, Thai is complicated. I’ve got two words meaning roughly “to wrap around” or “coil around” but the usage seems to defy logic for memorization. Any ideas?

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Brett @brett.mobi · 24/07/2025

China’s controversial “9-dash line map” staking claim to the entire East Sea is known in Vietnam as the “đường lưỡi bò” and translated as: “cow’s tongue line” 🐮👅 Now you can’t unsee it.

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Brett @brett.mobi · 24/04/2025

Ways to say "pick up" in Vietnamese...

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Brett @brett.mobi · 13/01/2024

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