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Only a truly great translator can fundamentally alter the meaning of the source and get away with it. (Well played, Ted Woolsey.)
by dudeinjapan 2y ago
Only a truly great translator can fundamentally alter the meaning of the source and get away with it. (Well played, Ted Woolsey.)
- Dwedit 2y agoExcept for the search-replace error (The Impresario on the Train!)
- dudeinjapan 2y agoAlso the train didn't even have a “conductor” did it?! (Well probably not anymore after I suplexed it!!)
- lmm 2y agoWhen did Woolsey alter the meaning and succeed? Sometimes he found a true translation that was underappreciated by an ignorant fanbase (the notorious spoony bard), sometimes he did the best he could while constrained by censorship that still compromised the results, and sometimes he straight-up screwed up.