[FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

[Steven A Smith]

> 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