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>translator has "won" awards
>translator has a Jewish name
>translator is a modern woman

>> No.18381959

anti red flags:

>translator shares the same mother tongue as the work he is translating
>lattimore
>mandelbaum
>has tons of degree and holds a chair at a major university pre-2000

>> No.18381964

>>18381959
>mandelbaum
Definitely a red flag. His Commedia is not good.

>> No.18381966

>>18381949
>OP is a cocksucker
>OP is certified to have made the worst thread this week
>OP is a nigger

>> No.18381969

>>18381949
>he doesn't translate his own books

>> No.18381972
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> New York Times best seller

>> No.18381973

>>18381966
seethe

>> No.18381976
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>>18381949
>mfw I just got a copy of the Tao Te Ching where the translator thought it was "inclusive" to translate all pronouns as "she"

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>Modernised version or in "Modern English"

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18382003

>introduction has words like 'problematic', 'inclusive' or 'queer'

>> No.18382015

>>18381949
How about try reading what you enjoy. Instead of following some retarded "redpill" guide. You cunts are the most annoying people one earth

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18382016

>when your translation is way too sanitized and SJW'd, effectively ruining the text

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MR FOREIGNER

>> No.18382032

>>18381976
Return that piece of shit.

>> No.18382038

>>18382016
anime girl puking dot jpg

>> No.18382043

>>18382016
what the fuck is any of this.

except the last part, it was the medieval tradition among all monks & clergy that I've ever read to refer to the soul as feminine and this is actually very important

>> No.18382048

>written by a modern jew
>written by a modern woman
>written by a modern black
>written by an “anti-racist”
>not written by a racist
>not written by an anti semite
>”translated by...”

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>tfw your country is too cucked to fully publish a classic from hundreds of years ago

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>>18381976
Was it this one?

>> No.18382081

>>18382032
Yeah.
>>18382060
Who is the translator? It doesn't look similar at all though so probably not.

>> No.18382088

>>18382081
John H. McDonald
I read the one by Cleary and it was far superior in every way.

>> No.18382097

>>18382088
Mine was Stephen Mitchell. Avoiiiid (he even managed to translate in "tractors and industrial factories" somehow). I'll try Cleary once I return it.

>> No.18382102

>>18382060
>>18382088
>>18382097
Try Gia-Fu Feng's if you get the chance, I quite enjoyed it.

>> No.18382121

>>18382097
>tractors and industrial factories
lol wtf

>> No.18382133

>>18381949
>scifi about colonizing mars
>scifi about brain links
>scifi about ...

>> No.18382167

>translations