Where it costs#
SLOP8217 · Week 9
Nothing in this lecture is funny, and the register of this course changes here on purpose.
Two cases where a translation error had a victim, and what that does to the standard of evidence this course has been using
intoxicado → intoxicated
Intoxicado secondary
In 1980 a young man arrived unconscious at a Florida hospital.
In 1840 the English and Māori texts of the Treaty of Waitangi did not say the same thing.
Outline#
- intoxicado: a single word, and the chain of decisions after it
- Te Tiriti: two texts, one signature, and a country
Outline#
- what changes when a specimen has a person still living with the outcome
- collecting, displaying, and the difference
At the bench on Wednesday
What stays out of the exhibit#
Wednesday, 28 April
- Material
- the whole corpus
- Operation
- excluding
- Leaves
- a list of what stays out, with reasons