> Thanks for this, Steve, > > Yes, it was Grinspoon. Sara Walker told me that at the last AbSciCon > meeting, but in the running stream of conversation with Jim I had > forgotten it. > > Your Freudian typo was fun, unless it was your computer that did it. > A mixture of Grinspoon and Greenspan. Given what happens to European > Jewish names at Ellis Island (or its modern equivalent), those could > well have been the same name originally.
Interesting "Freud-in-a-slip" for sure... the duality of the phonographic space of our written record and the phonetic space of our oral culture yields some interesting slip-slides from time to time... I doubt I ever *heard* Grinspoon's name, but must have phoneticized it as "Green" and internalized it that way? The first time I was ever aware of this kind of name-transliteration imposed at the moment of immigration was a (bad) joke that lead to a Chinese Man taking on the name "Lars Larsson" as a result of being in line behind a Swede of that name, and giving his own which was "Sam Ting". <groan> My own "Smith" was surely once "Schmidt" (coming down through the German branch of my ancestry)? I'm now wading through the finance/monetary section of your interview with Rutt, in fascination... it provides an excellent reminder of the rich and subtle complexity of the domain. - Steve ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
