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Translation - Munday
"Chin Yong-Yun Takes a Case"
Ringu
The Ring
Translation - Oittinen
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What is "foreignization"?
Keeping cultural details the same as the original in the translated version.
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Name of the woman who causes the trouble in this story
Tan Li-Li
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What is the little boy's name?
Yoichi Asakawa
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What can be "removed" from the cursed video (taken from the screen)?
A fly
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What is "Domesticization"?
Changing details during translation to match the new (target) culture.
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Does Venuti do actual translation work?
yes
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What does Chin Yong-Yun's daughter do for a living?
She's a private eye.
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What Japanese character (kanji) appears in the eye in the cursed video? (Japanese pronunciation)
"Sada"
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What do Samara's parents do for a living?
Breed horses
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What are three examples of things that can domesticized?
Any three of: names, setting, genres, historical events, cultural or religious rites and beliefs.
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Which method does Venuti feel is best? Domesticization or foreignization?
Foreignization
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Why does Feng Guo-Ha help Tan Li-Li?
They were childhood friends from the same village.
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What is special about Sadako's mother?
She is psychic
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Why does Rachel investigate the video tape?
Her sister (Katie's mom) asks her to.
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What is a possible problem when using foreignization to translate children's books?
The translation may seem too strange to child readers
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What is "invisibility" in translation?
When you can't tell it has been translated (it sounds like it was written in the target language first).
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Who did Chin Yong-Yun tell the truth about the case to?
Tan Li-Li and her daughter.
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The phone will only ring in one place when the video is watched. Where is this?
The cabin built over the well where Sadako died (in Izu)
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What is the name of the cabin where the tape is found?
Shelter Mountain Inn
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What is "negative manipulation"?
Where texts are rewritten in order to manipulate (change without them knowing) people's minds.
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What is another word for foreignization (according to Venuti)?
"Resistancy"
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What is the computer code (the ransom for little Bin-Bin) used for?
To enhance the ability of scanners to recognize and read character-based languages.
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How does Reiko Asakawa plan to save her son at the end of the film?
She will help him make a copy of the tape, and ask his grandfather to watch it.
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What was Rachel's card (when the cabin owner tries to guess the playing card she picked)?
Nine of diamonds
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Which country does the essay talk about as an example of a country using negative manipulation in the past?
East Germany