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This is interesting, but kind of odd that the mandarin quotes weren't translated in an otherwise English article.
by burlesona 8y ago
This is interesting, but kind of odd that the mandarin quotes weren't translated in an otherwise English article.
- paraditedc 8y agoAh, I see. I overlooked the fact that it would be odd for people who can't read them. Anyway, the reason I didn't translate them is partly because there's a lot of nuances in the language and any attempt to translate them would inherently require some level of interpretation and potentially cause misunderstanding. Also at the time, I was too tired from reading and summarizing the document already.
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- adamnemecek 8y ago> Anyway, the reason I didn't translate them is partly because there's a lot of nuances in the language and any attempt to translate them would inherently require some level of interpretation and potentially cause misunderstanding. Welcome to translation?
- dang 8y agoWould you please stop being a jerk on HN? We've had to ask you way too many times. I've held off banning you because you've posted good stories, but at some point it's not going to be worth it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yorwba 8y agoFWIW, most of the quotes are directly next to their summary in the English article. I didn't check all of them (because I'm slow at reading Chinese, those quotes are officialese and there's no lang="zh-cn" attribute so some of the characters have odd shapes) but I think you don't miss much if you can't read them.