making a work "relevant" for "modern audiences" is just the higher brow version of doing fanfic
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@sickburnbro Rendering a text into reasonably colloquial English is quite important though, if you focus too hard on accurately representing the source material you end up with something like the awful, stilted classics-esse that plagues modern translations of classical texts; you're much better off learning Greek and Latin than suffering through those overly-literal garbage translations
Effective translation, especially of literature, always involves rewriting the source text to some degree
Effective translation, especially of literature, always involves rewriting the source text to some degree
@scathach @sickburnbro Yeah, but we're not talking about that here. The "modern" translation Nolan is using for example fundamentally changes Helen's description of herself, from knowing she sinned badly to not.
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@ThatWouldBeTelling @sickburnbro Oh I didn't know this was about the Odyssey movie, a bad translation is probably the least of the things wrong with that shitshow