Translations are a tricky thing in general. For example this article mentions "queer" and it's very hard to translate, or "gay" to give another well-known examp

Translations are a tricky thing in general. For example this article mentions "queer" and it's very hard to translate, or "gay" to give another well-known example. I dislike changing these sort of words because they have a particular "old-fashioned feeling" to them, and if you change the word then you change that "feeling". But I wouldn't know how to translate that to Dutch; there simple aren't archaic words that mean the same, AFAIK, so you will have to convey that feeling in another way. Or what more often happens is that it will just get lost – and that's okay as a translation will never be the same as the original in any case. (Aside: I also think that no one is "offended" by these sort of words, as they deliberately co-opted archaic words for their movements; everyone understands that older writings will use these words in their original meaning and no one has a problem with that. If you do, then you're a rather queer person IMO.)