Fun fact: My first time reading Derrida or Guattari was in a US philo book club. In english. I'm French. I read the books in my mothers tongue of course. But

Fun fact: My first time reading Derrida or Guattari was in a US philo book club. In english. I'm French. I read the books in my mothers tongue of course. But it was really interesting to see how the pedantic translation gets in the way. I'm not the only one the 'teacher' of that group speaks decent french and was using me a lot to 'demistify' some fancy translation. "Does the sentence sound contrived in french? because it's hard to follow in English" It's interesting, I have only the minimal French background in philosophie, it's mandatory to take 2 years in high-school. But I was less lost than some US folks with more comprensive training in that field. ( I did read some Guattari in high school, but nothing comprenhensive )