A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey

Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by dragonwriter on Saturday December 09, 2017 @04:51PM (#15888380)

> The modern impulse to impose its cultural norms upon the past is deeply upsetting.

It's not a modern impulse, it's pretty much an invariant aspect of culture.

Of course, so is the tendency to perceive invariant aspects of culture as both unique to the present culture and signs of decline.

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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by ryanx435 on Saturday December 09, 2017 @05:49PM (#15888645)

> so is the tendency to invariant aspects of culture as .....

What are you trying to say here? Invariant is not a verb, and it's definition of "never changing" doesn't make sense in the way you used it.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/invariant

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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by SAI_Peregrinus on Saturday December 09, 2017 @06:28PM (#15888801)

You want the mathematical definition. All cultures judge others according to their own norms, that's essentially the definition of what a culture is: a set of norms and behaviors by which things are judged.

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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by __s on Saturday December 09, 2017 @05:54PM (#15888667)

I think they meant to say 'consider' before invariant

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