Professor Alfred MacAdams on the translation of Latin American texts:
“All of this is like trying to learn sex from a manual and using a blow up doll. There are some things you just can’t learn from books.”
-Ana Ortiz
Tags: alfred macadams, overheard, profs say the darndest things
2 March 2006 @ 11:26 AM · 3 comments
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is he comparing (whatever) to (trying to learn sex and using a blow up doll)? or is he contrasting (trying to learn sex) and (using a blow up doll) in terms of (whatever)?
he crazy
I’m pretty sure he made that same joke in that class last year.