In your essay, you reflected on Dr. Winston’s idea that meaning is not a concrete thing that everyone shares and that we can never pass on one individual’s meaning in its entirety to another individual. I was talking about this idea just yesterday with an interpreter who used to work at a school for the Deaf but now teaches in a public high school. She compared it to one of the new Common Core standards that requires students to look at a key idea in two different artistic mediums (literature, painting, sculpture, music, etc.) and analyze what is being emphasized or absent in each medium. She said that as we interpret we are making choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out. For example, when a screenplay writer turns a novel into
