macha

right now we actually have two sites for Tea at the Ford, inwhich one site (teaattheford.net) mirrors the other (arterialmatter.net), the list and the public site are in separate locations, and because of that stressors (including simple usage) are reduced for both versions (yielding stability). the aim is to avoid catastrophies like the spectacular crash we had last year, which left us homeless for awhile and wasn't the easiest thing to come back from. ( the whole thing is here )

so. here's a little article on the new translation of Chaucer. which yeah, does get as far as toying with the question of why we need one. especially since we didn't used to. has anyone peeked at this one yet to see what it's up to? does/should Chaucer ever (need to) be converted to prose? what falls out when we do, and what remains? what does meaning mean, if we opt for meaning at the expense of form, in poetry or prose? these are questions that are more usually incurred with classical translations, and somehow there both sides of the argument are more compelling. but this is English, after all.( Read more... )