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Raw and Cooked:

I was surprised firstly at how quickly I could be convinced that it was easy to spot a lineage of translation, and secondly that it was a distinctly bad translation (especially considering the work's level of accreditation) -- and then how quickly hearing Smith talk about herself, I wanted to retract that judgement (perhaps mostly because it feels much harsher to call it bad when she talks about how much it means to he). Last week Karen and Ersi got asked whether or not they’d encountered something generative about improper register (Karen said there was nothing improper or that translation could not be a "betrayal" of the original -- Ersi said yes) and I think this article has a good example of each in that the pervasion of the higher register, I agree with the article, undermines the narrator – but contrary to the article, I think makes the woman totally more interesting as a character because she gets to occupy this kind of empty space, so having her have this contradiction/inconsistency between her register and her background I think is just utterly compelling.

Ersi and Karen:

I really liked this lecture, but it was a little bit hard for me to wrap my head around since most of our prior speakers have had like a central question they're working through, and as Karen and Ersi intended it, this was more of a conversation, which I wish I would have oriented myself to the format of more quickly so I could have gotten to work trying to find the central focus in the conversation there were having instead of kind of waiting for them to hand it to me. 

Jonika