Meaning of strangify | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make strange or exotic.
   transitive
2. To extend so as to be accessible to others; to universalize.
   transitive

Examples

“In 1970, Nabokov specifically took issue⟳ with an attempt⟳ critically to explicate his work⟳ within this Russian formalist matrix, arguing: "What doesn't make⟳ strange, estrange, strangify in a book , if the author is a genuine artist? No, leave⟳ those terms alone. Avoid⟳ textbook truth"”

“How can a translator adopt⟳ a single style for such diverse material? One thing I have⟳ definitely avoided in my translation is the attempt⟳ to “strangify” the English, to forgo the straightforward in favor of something—anything—that sounds unusual.”

“Moreover, the very process⟳ through which this symbolic pushing of the Migrant toward the margin takes place⟳ through policy can be further specified as a matter⟳ of ongoing rhetorical acts that 'strangify' the skills, dispositions, preferences, lifestyles and citizen enactments that are actualised by concrete others that are encompassed by the figure⟳ of the Migrant.”

“And, with history itself now re-defined as an 'artwork', its potential in a similar direction —its potential, that is, for deliberate disruption of conventional ways of thinking, or to 'strangify', as theorist Sande Cohen urges – becomes clear.”

“Stories strangify experiences and estrange the world so we can rise⟳ above it like⟳ smoke⟳, if even for a moment, to catch⟳ a glimpse not only of what is happening — but what it all might mean⟳.”

“To strangify is to engage⟳ in a non reduction of meaning that terrorizes all forms of equational logic, positive and negative.”

“If I want⟳ to make⟳ myself understandable to you, I need⟳ to strangify my discourse into your language. If I want⟳ to make⟳ my ideals universally 'practiceable', I cannot force⟳ you to practice it in my social context; I need⟳ to strangify my ideals into your social context.”

“Through appropriating a language understandable to others, we shall be able to strangify ourselves via that kind of language .”

“Unwillingness to appropriate other language and to strangify would mean⟳ self-contentment with, or self-enclosure in, one's own⟳ micro-world, cultural world, or religious world.”

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