{"id":715,"date":"2017-12-20T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interfluency.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2021-02-21T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T23:29:15","slug":"drinking-a-unique-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interfluency.com\/en\/2017\/12\/20\/drinking-a-unique-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking a unique toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/interfluency.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/20\/un-brindis-unico\/\">Enlace para espa\u00f1ol\/ Click here for Spanish<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear reader,<\/p>\n<p>In this season, many a glass is raised and \u201ctoasts\u201d offered. The word seems to come from an old custom of using spiced toast to flavor wine; by extension it meant the person whose health was saluted.<\/p>\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_1837\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1837\" class=\"  wp-image-1837 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/interfluency.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/kroyer-peder-severin-hip-hip-hurrah-1888.jpg?w=435&amp;h=327\" alt=\"Kroyer Peder Severin 'Hip Hip Hurrah!' 1888\" width=\"435\" height=\"327\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peder Severin Kroyer, <em>Hip, Hip, Hoorah! <\/em>(1888).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Spanish it\u2019s <em>brindis<\/em>, one of that language\u2019s rare Germanic (as opposed to Latin) roots. From <em>Ich bring dir <\/em>\u201cI bring you\u201d\u2014i.e., good wishes. (The verb <em>brindar <\/em>is \u201cto offer, provide\u201d.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo your health!\u201d or variants thereof may well be the world\u2019s most popular toast; Span. <em>\u00a1Por su salud!<\/em> or simply <em>\u00a1Salud!<\/em> and Fr. <em>A votre sant\u00e9! <\/em>are close equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>Toasts can be intricate, as in the legendary old Irish blessing: \u201cMay the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm on your face, the rains fall soft on your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But where drinking and poetry intersect,&nbsp;it\u2019s hard to beat William Oldys\u2019s 18th century \u201canacreontic\u201d (poetic term for a drinking song), \u201cThe Fly\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Busy, curious, thirsty fly!<br \/>\nDrink with me and drink as I:<br \/>\nFreely welcome to my cup,<br \/>\nCouldst thou sip and sip it up:<br \/>\nMake the most of life you may,<br \/>\nLife is short and wears away.<\/p>\n<p>Both alike are mine and thine<br \/>\nHastening quick to their decline:<br \/>\nThine\u2019s a summer, mine\u2019s no more,<br \/>\nThough repeated to threescore.<br \/>\nThreescore summers, when they\u2019re gone,<br \/>\nWill appear as short as one!<\/p>\n<p>The empathy and fraternity with a tiny fellow mortal: how moving, how gently expressed! And likely inspired by a real fly on the edge of the poet\u2019s glass.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a1Buenas palabras!<br \/>\n<\/em>Pablo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Pablo J. Davis is an attorney, translator, and historian. A version of this essay was originally published in the Dec. 24-30, 2017 issue of <\/em>La Prensa Latina <em>(Memphis, Tennessee, USA) as No. 262 of the weekly, bilingual column \u201cMysteries &amp; Enigmas of Translation\u201d [Misterios y Enigmas de la Traducci\u00f3n].<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlace para espa\u00f1ol\/ Click here for Spanish Dear reader, In this season, many a glass is raised and \u201ctoasts\u201d offered. The word seems to come from an old custom of using spiced toast to flavor wine; by extension it meant the person whose health was saluted. Peder Severin Kroyer, Hip, Hip, Hoorah! (1888). 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