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>>15139624

Because it's a ubiquitous example of reliance on textbook translations rather than understanding of the languages. Nearly every instance of this phrase had a more appropriate alternative, such as "oh well", "But hey, whatever", "But that's life for 'ya", "But that's just how things are". To incessantly utilize a phrase that is an -example- of the original text's meaning, despite literary context, is the hallmark of a bad translator (if, indeed, they are translating at all).