why did Han Kang get the nobel prise when she uses the greek language in her book greek lessons so frivurously and deliberately wrong

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why did Han Kang get the nobel prise when she uses the greek language in her book greek lessons so frivurously and deliberately wrong

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Why Han Kang won the Nobel despite (or because of) playful Greek in Greek Lessons

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she claims that the word used to mean beautiful, noble and difficult in ancient greek and continues into musings of a era when those three were mixed The word only ever meant difficult out of the three Why would she be doing that

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Why does she treat a Greek word as “beautiful, noble, and difficult” when it historically meant only “difficult”?

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what gives her the right to "expand" the word's meaning into completely irrelevant ideas and present this as true Not as a mistake Is this moral use of her power as an accomplished writter

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Does Han Kang have the “right” to expand a word’s meaning — and is it moral?

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Con: Han Kang has no right to expand a word’s meaning and present it as true

Claim: It’s wrong for an author to repurpose a historical word into unrelated meanings and present that as factual, because it misleads read

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