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gwern comments on “Pickled Stewberries!” in HPMoR, Omake #3 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Morendil 05 September 2012 08:51:00PM *  9 points [-]

best if we drop that line

Please don't. See my comments elsewhere. A translator has no business making alterations to the original work.

I feel very strongly about this, because I have huge amounts of experience reading bad translations of Sci-Fi authors to French, to the point that at an early age I taught myself English out of the originals just so I could enjoy non-sabotaged versions of these works I loved so much.

Comment author: gwern 06 September 2012 12:58:31AM 2 points [-]

I feel very strongly about this, because I have huge amounts of experience reading bad translations of Sci-Fi authors to French, to the point that at an early age I taught myself English out of the originals just so I could enjoy non-sabotaged versions of these works I loved so much.

So in other words... those translators made your life much better?

Comment author: Morendil 06 September 2012 06:04:24AM 10 points [-]

Two answers occur. Pick whichever suits you:

  • Yeah; ironic, isn't it?
  • No - I made my life much better.
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