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Wellerstein prides himself on being able to read Russian, but he is not as good at it as he thinks. Specifically, translating the title of the section "Атомные
by Mikhail_K 3y ago
Wellerstein prides himself on being able to read Russian, but he is not as good at it as he thinks. Specifically, translating the title of the section "Атомные байки" as "Atomic fun" is simply inadequate. Here <https://en.pons.com/translate/russian-english/%D0%B1%D0%B0%CC%81%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B0?q=%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B0 https://en.pons.com/translate/russian-english/%D0%B1%D0%B0%C...>, for instance, the second word is correctly translated as "fairy-tale, fable, old wives' tale".
So to sum up, his whole blog post is based on mistranslation