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I'd love a machine learning powered shakespeare-to-modern-english translator because I feel that this is both beautiful and that I'm barely understanding it (bu

I'd love a machine learning powered shakespeare-to-modern-english translator because I feel that this is both beautiful and that I'm barely understanding it (but I'm also not really a literature guy). > Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow What is this trying to say, for example? When love is happening too fast, every moment apart feels like an eternity and thus the next time together always arrives "too tardy"? And... wait, what? I feel like I'm not quite grasping it

yed 5y ago
You might just be overthinking it. It means the same as “slow and steady wins the race”.
- nh23423fefe 5y ago
  Yeah I felt something like > The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long a hot love burns itself out
- j4yav 5y ago
  Exactly. Specifically it is saying being too early/fast is just as wrong as being too late/slow.
dfabulich 5y ago
There's a very limited corpus of Shakespeare, and so plenty of folks have already manually translated Shakespeare into "modern." Here's Sparknotes, hardly the best: https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/page_132/ https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/pa... > These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. When they meet, as in a kiss, they explode. Too much honey is delicious, but it makes you sick to your stomach. Therefore, love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.
- nh23423fefe 5y ago
  These kinds of translations are so soulless. They are only good to be read along side to really get the meaning. I love the literal-ness but hate the word choice.
- pmarreck 5y ago
  wow, lost all the artistry, but thank you!
kwhitefoot 5y ago
> shakespeare-to-modern-english translator because I feel that this is both beautiful and that I'm barely understanding it But if you translate it then it won't be beautiful; not unless the ML is as good a writer as Shakespeare. Anyway, Shakespeare really isn't that difficult. It should be read aloud, declaimed with passion. Then a lot of it will become clear, while some will remain ambiguous. Translating it will not, or ought not, remove the ambiguity. Anyway there are already simplified versions of Shakespeare. Here is one of Macbeth: https://www.academia.edu/6555385/A_Simplified_and_Concise_Version_of_Shakespeares_Play_Macbeth?auto=download https://www.academia.edu/6555385/A_Simplified_and_Concise_Ve...

yed 5y ago

You might just be overthinking it. It means the same as “slow and steady wins the race”.

nh23423fefe 5y ago
Yeah I felt something like > The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long a hot love burns itself out
j4yav 5y ago
Exactly. Specifically it is saying being too early/fast is just as wrong as being too late/slow.

dfabulich 5y ago

There's a very limited corpus of Shakespeare, and so plenty of folks have already manually translated Shakespeare into "modern." Here's Sparknotes, hardly the best: https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/page_132/ https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/pa... > These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. When they meet, as in a kiss, they explode. Too much honey is delicious, but it makes you sick to your stomach. Therefore, love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.

nh23423fefe 5y ago
These kinds of translations are so soulless. They are only good to be read along side to really get the meaning. I love the literal-ness but hate the word choice.
pmarreck 5y ago
wow, lost all the artistry, but thank you!

kwhitefoot 5y ago

> shakespeare-to-modern-english translator because I feel that this is both beautiful and that I'm barely understanding it But if you translate it then it won't be beautiful; not unless the ML is as good a writer as Shakespeare. Anyway, Shakespeare really isn't that difficult. It should be read aloud, declaimed with passion. Then a lot of it will become clear, while some will remain ambiguous. Translating it will not, or ought not, remove the ambiguity. Anyway there are already simplified versions of Shakespeare. Here is one of Macbeth: https://www.academia.edu/6555385/A_Simplified_and_Concise_Version_of_Shakespeares_Play_Macbeth?auto=download https://www.academia.edu/6555385/A_Simplified_and_Concise_Ve...