Translators get their degrees for a reason. While they can't make everyone into a master, they can help with avoiding mistakes most amateurs do. Then, of course

Translators get their degrees for a reason. While they can't make everyone into a master, they can help with avoiding mistakes most amateurs do. Then, of course, there's a question of personal breadth. If a person imagines that lively characters talk like they are in a sitcom, there is little you can do about it. Consider that Vladimir Nabokov rarely, if ever, mentioned that one of the very first works published under his Russian pseudonym was a translation of “Alice in Wonderland”. It was a very thorough work in which each twist was given a match from more or less similar saying, poem, nursery rhyme, etc. Alice became Anya, and names got translated to something familiar to kids. The thing is, one might wonder where Lewis Carroll was in that. What is worse, because of the Revolution, almost all of the rhymes and jokes to which he alluded would be unused by next generations both inside and outside the country, and therefore forgotten.