/lit/ - Literature

what criteria or units are you using to measure "reliability of translation"?

>>5972878
Patricianians (P)

How are Epics more valid than poetry? The Divine Comedy essentially bridges the two in literary tradition

>>5972893
Epics are pretty much required reading, whereas you don't need to read poetry.

>>5972878

fuck off it's not any more acceptable for epics. stop being a lazy shit, tonnes of people have learnt latin and ancient greek.

Also it's only acceptable for philosophy if it's autistic analytic sperg shit. Fuck off if you think nietzsche or plato can be appreciated through translations.

Also LOL at thinking it's even vaguely acceptable for literary fiction. LOL. KEK. JEJ. TREL.

We should make a chart like this for "How acceptable this thread is"

>>5972897
you have not the least idea of how literature works
>>/r9k/

>>5972878
>Taking the time to learn a language to read a book
>Being this autistic

>>5972897
K thanks for confirming your opinions are garbage

>>5972878
>genre fiction lower than philosophy
literary fiction is fine translated, if you must read it that way

>>5972911

this nigga here

>>5972912

also this butterfree here

Not at all. Its acceptable to read books in your own language. There is no point in missing out on something just because you don't know 30 different languages.

I totally agree OP, I only have read English novels originally written in English in my lifetime. I don't want to risk being unaccepted by anyone.

op is an autistic faggot

>>5972878
So what you're saying is that patricians cannot read the Brothers Karamazov unless they spend years learning Russian?

Swap literary fiction and epics. Epics are almost always in verse anyway.

This board takes the piss out of translations yet I almost never see people reading texts in original languages.

>>5973024
>This board takes the piss out of translations
It's a meme, don't take it seriously

>>5973395
Really though, there is almost no point in reading translated poetry

>>5973400
Well if you get something out of it then there was a point, regardless of how much you're missing.

>>5973424
You get some meaning out of it but the majority of the wordplay is lost, it's a completely different poem

>reading scientific texts

>>5972897
>you don't need to read poetry

>>5972897
Much of the Epics are poetry...

If I read strength training book translations will it diminish my gains?

>>5973485

No. If you read the strength training book and then get someone else to do the lifts, that will diminish your gains

>>5972893
I don't think that the graph is sorted by the validity of different types of literature, but rather by the ratio between importance of crude information in the text and importance of the way the information is presented in.

>>5972878
>philosophy
Are you serious?
A slightly different meaning can make all the difference in the world.

>>5973648
not really, if you aren't an idiot

it's only the untrained mind that takes exact words too literally