[lit-ideas] Re: Translation Problem, or the Absolutely Literary Backstory to How at Deadline Arsenal Ended Up With Everton's Top Player
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:49:15 -0700
On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Julie Krueger wrote:
> Greek was a lot easier.
>
> Julie Krueger
Makes "credit default swaps" look straightforward, doesn't it? "Let's sell the
probability of future revenue, and offer as surety the television revenue that
the league offers those clubs that get relegated, which is to say, dropped into
the next level of the league." What's "bumper" about those payments is that
relegated clubs used to get two years' of t.v. revenue and now they get four,
unless they do so well that they move back up to the top division the following
year, in which case the payments get shared among...oh never mind. I guess the
point of language like this is that anyone who is interested will be
sufficiently interested to decipher what's meant by the truncated version, and
those who aren't will be happy that they don't have to wade through paragraphs
like this one.
David Ritchie,
teaching Football in the Language Lab.
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