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ecib  ·  3979 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's up Hubski?

    I have no idea if that's any good or not, but translations don't bother me that much as long as they aren't completely unreadable.

For the most part I'm the same way. It actually never occurred to me to bother with different translations until I was on the floor of the bookstore with three different versions of War and Peace. If I had just picked one, I would have enjoyed the hell out of it, but as it was I was there, looking down at three different versions and found I had a preference. Then I lost my first copy part way through and picked up with another, then found an additional copy and moved between those two a bit, lol. I didn't need to have the best translation, but I did end up with it, and that wasn't a bad thing at all.

In the future, I don't think I'll ever sweat translations beyond comparing versions on a bookstore shelf in front of me. That first Dante above is damn near impenetrable though...oof.