▲ 1756 ▼ speak out now (lemmy.ml) submitted 1 year ago by kingshrubb@lemmy.ml to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world 102 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) Does "I chose silence" work? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wieson@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) Good idea, but I think "remain silent" applies a bit more generally. The phrase "you have the right to remain silent" is always translated to "sie haben das Recht zu schweigen". So I went with that. ("schweigen" being the verb I'm looking for here) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] oo1@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago I think I'd say 'I kept silent' as more common or 'I kept quiet', probably an even more common phrase. 'Kept' would be slightly more 'active' than remained I think. But "remain" does some nice extra poetic work here; it foreshadows another usage of [narrator's] "remains" - the corpse or ashes or whatever lifeless material is left after their death. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wieson@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) Good idea, but I think "remain silent" applies a bit more generally. The phrase "you have the right to remain silent" is always translated to "sie haben das Recht zu schweigen". So I went with that. ("schweigen" being the verb I'm looking for here) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] oo1@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago I think I'd say 'I kept silent' as more common or 'I kept quiet', probably an even more common phrase. 'Kept' would be slightly more 'active' than remained I think. But "remain" does some nice extra poetic work here; it foreshadows another usage of [narrator's] "remains" - the corpse or ashes or whatever lifeless material is left after their death. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] oo1@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago I think I'd say 'I kept silent' as more common or 'I kept quiet', probably an even more common phrase. 'Kept' would be slightly more 'active' than remained I think. But "remain" does some nice extra poetic work here; it foreshadows another usage of [narrator's] "remains" - the corpse or ashes or whatever lifeless material is left after their death. permalink fedilink source parent
