A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey

Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by pvg on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:27AM (#15890101)

I'm guessing this is far as you're going to acknowledge 'Tolstoy never said a thing Tolstoy would have never said but I claimed he did and thought was a decisive forum killshot'. :)

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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by jimmywanger on Sunday December 10, 2017 @01:13AM (#15890222)

No, I'm just saying (back to the original point) you should castigate somebody by misinterpreting the words.

That is sloppy reasoning, and it bothers me. (As it should you)

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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by pvg on Sunday December 10, 2017 @01:41AM (#15890288)

I don't know what that means. You based some argument on a made-up quote. That argument can't be right, can it?

Edit: I'll summarize the arguments you've made so far and the obvious objections.

- The Odyssey is a trivial story of a dude returning to his wife [Not true, 20-odd centuries of scholarship saying otherwise]

- There is a tiny number of stories all stories reduce to (possibly two), a Major Writer of a World Literature Said So [not true, and, obviously, he did not say that]

- The above idea is somehow supported by tvtropes [tvtropes is wonderful but also full of thousands of tropes rather than two]

Every single one of these things is just deeply and demonstrably wrong. The totality of your evidence is... a made-up Tolstoy quote and a country song? It's hard to tell how to even argue with this.

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