But what is the original vision of the author? It may not be possible to fully to fully capture without compromise. For example, many people in this thread ar

But what is the original vision of the author? It may not be possible to fully to fully capture without compromise. For example, many people in this thread are insistent they want a "phrase by phrase" translation. But what if the author wrote the book in a colloquial spoken style, that is specifically supposed to come across as neutral contemporary language? If you translate the work into English in a stilted style that carefully preserves the structure of the original even when it produces unnaturalistic English, you have lost a key aspect of the original vision of the work. It won't hit the reader the same way.