Context
Social context. We're all in it.
Books from other eras, their blithe assumption of our understanding of their cultural references, make for puzzling reading.
Cow wishes translations would provide social contexts instead of just translating words. For instance, the Duchess of Abrantes lists grievous social solecisms committed in the court of Napoleon I in her memoires, undecipherable now. And Gawain sat uncharacteristically silent while the Green Knight challenged the Court, remarked upon by the chronicler but never explained.
Cow wants more asterisks.
Moo!
Books from other eras, their blithe assumption of our understanding of their cultural references, make for puzzling reading.
Cow wishes translations would provide social contexts instead of just translating words. For instance, the Duchess of Abrantes lists grievous social solecisms committed in the court of Napoleon I in her memoires, undecipherable now. And Gawain sat uncharacteristically silent while the Green Knight challenged the Court, remarked upon by the chronicler but never explained.
Cow wants more asterisks.
Moo!
posted by The Topiary Cow at
8:10 AM
3 Comments:
Hey thanks for your note. I'll be mindful of this while I write the Great American Novel. LOL
And if it's worth a damn, I'll give you a signed first edition. :)
Oooh.
Cow is very excited now!
Moo!
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