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Translating poetry is, in many ways, an impossibility, which is why the best translations are by poets and not linguists as they’re essentially writing a new po
by dhosek 2y ago
Translating poetry is, in many ways, an impossibility, which is why the best translations are by poets and not linguists as they’re essentially writing a new poem with the skeleton of the original.
- emmelaich 2y agoRelevant and entertaining: Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French by Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUnGvH8fUUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUnGvH8fUUc
- dhosek 2y agoNot quite what I was expecting—I was thinking that it was going to be because English has a somewhat weird history, being a Germanic language that’s incorporated a rather large amount of Latinate vocabulary between the Romans and the French. This allows for differing registers in language that don’t exist in other languages because there’s a choice between Latinate vocabulary and Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, something which Shakespeare also made great use of.