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Considering this is a list of books written in English, the language descended from Anglo-Saxon, what did you expect them to do? Include foreign books that the
by billyjobob 13y ago
Considering this is a list of books written in English, the language descended from Anglo-Saxon, what did you expect them to do? Include foreign books that their English readers can't read?
(And no, just because a non-English book is great and worth reading does not automatically confer that same status onto an English translation based upon that book.)
- bnegreve 13y ago> what did you expect them to do? Include foreign books that their English readers can't read? I've spotted few translated books in this list, so I don't see why this is a problem. >And no, just because a non-English book is great and worth reading does not automatically confer that same status onto an English translation based upon that book. I disagree, I think good translations are pretty much transparent. Substance matters more.