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- Greg Malivuk
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- Homework: p. 41 2d - think of a book for each of these statements
- (Share your books in groups of 3 or 4. Tell your partners more information about each book if they don’t know what it’s about.)
- http://www.meetup.com - search for Boston area groups that have similar interests to you (even if it’s not focused on ESL practice, you’re at a high enough level that you should be able to talk with the people in any of these groups)
- young adult literature - written for teenagers, so the language is not too hard but the topics are more interesting than children’s books
- pun: a play on words that depends on different meanings or sounds a word can have
- Q: Where do cats go when they die?
- A: Purrgatory. (happy cats purr, the actual word for the place is Purgatory)
- (A translation of this pun also works in Spanish and Italian, because cat = gato.)
- Q: Why was six afraid of seven?
- A: Because 7 8 9. / seven ate nine.
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- p. 42
- narrative present: the use of the present tense in a story to make readers/listeners feel like they are watching it happen
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- What makes a translation bad?
- Trying to make a literal translation of every word.
- Not knowing the culture of the writer.
- Not knowing the culture of the reader. (especially things like formality and politeness)
- Focusing too much on things like rhyme and rhythm of the original, at the expense of flow and meaning.
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- p. 43 - read about the translation of Russian literature into English
- What makes a translation good?
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