Yay! *g* It's just such a shame I met you at the end of the year!
My prof is actually Deborah Steiner. She's really quite wonderful; she has this adorable British accent and speaks in beautifully structured full sentences without notes or anything, and the things she says are brilliant on their own. Oh! And she'll do this thing, where she'll sort of very politely diss the translation we're reading by saying the Greek was translated wrong--she proceeds to give us the original Greek, describe the cultural elements that make the term impossible to translate directly, and illuminate this whole new meaning of like, the entire Odyssey, all from one little line or word. It's brilliant. I love that class.
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Yay! *g* It's just such a shame I met you at the end of the year!
My prof is actually Deborah Steiner. She's really quite wonderful; she has this adorable British accent and speaks in beautifully structured full sentences without notes or anything, and the things she says are brilliant on their own. Oh! And she'll do this thing, where she'll sort of very politely diss the translation we're reading by saying the Greek was translated wrong--she proceeds to give us the original Greek, describe the cultural elements that make the term impossible to translate directly, and illuminate this whole new meaning of like, the entire Odyssey, all from one little line or word. It's brilliant. I love that class.